Builder Growthbuilt has struck back in a $91.7 million lawsuit over the Oxford & Foley mixed use development in Darlinghurst, Sydney, claiming the project’s financier failed to act in good faith and pointing the finger at its subcontractors.
Seqwater has revealed the contractors shortlisted to run in a two-horse race to win the contract to design and build the Wyaralong water treatment plant in south east Queensland.
Sydney developer Fortis has snapped up a vacant site in Brisbane for $37.5 million for a planned residential development.
Victoria’s student housing pipeline has surpassed NSW, but most projects are still at the approval stage, according to a Property Council report which expressed concerns the state’s land taxes are slowing development.
Brittany Higgins must cover 80 per cent of Linda Reynolds’ legal costs on top of $315,000 in damages the former senator was awarded in her defamation case over social media posts that implied she mishandling Higgins’ rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann.
Former PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO Thomas Seymour has been banned from registering as a tax agent for four years, after the regulator found he permitted a culture within the accounting firm of sharing confidential information.
A judge has signed off on a $13.5 million penalty agreed to by retailer The Good Guys for making misleading statements about store credit and StoreCash schemes to customers.
A group of labour hire firms are continuing their push to disqualify former Labor MP turned Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases by the union representing coal miners.
Coles and Woolworths estimate they will need to remediate underpaid workers up to $780 million, following a complex judgment in two class actions and regulatory proceedings handed down last week.
Building materials giant CSR has hit back at a misuse of market power case brought by building insulation distributor Consolidated Energy over COVID-19 price increases, blaming the higher prices on forces beyond its control.
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