Rio Tinto’s struggling Tomago Aluminium Company has lost a challenge to a $52 million valuation of the land occupied by its Hunter Valley smelter, despite arguing the sum was too high in light of electricity costs and the limited pool of notional buyers.
Defunct telecommunication company NewSat has until 7 April to pay security for defence costs in a case against a group of lenders that withdrew financial support for the company’s satellite project.
A judge has dismissed an application for a freezing order against the developer behind a NSW Central Coast office block at the centre of a class action over defects including sub-par air conditioning.
John Holland and CPB Contractors have agreed to pay $150,000 after mulch which contained fragments of asbestos was found at Sydney’s Rozelle Parklands in January 2024.
The Fair Work Commission has proposed requiring litigants to disclose their use of generative artificial intelligence tools and to check that all details in documents are correct, or risk their case being dismissed.
Pacific Werribee shopping centre owner QIC says its misleading conduct case against co-owner Wadren and consulting firm KPMG is viable even in the absence of a defects finding in a related case against Probuild.
A court has signed off on Someva Renewables’ plan to build 62 wind turbines just outside of Hanging Rock following what the company called 18 months of “unnecessary” opposition from a local council that did little to alter the project.
The Minns government has fast-tracked 15 data centre projects worth $51.9 billion and promised to articulate the values that will guide future decision-making amid concerns about protecting national interests amid the data centre boom.
Alinta Energy has secured a long-term power purchase agreement with the state of Western Australia for what will be the state’s largest wind farm.
A local NSW council has been ordered to pay the owners of a block of land it acquired in North-West Sydney $12.7 million, with the court finding that if not for the acquisition, the land could have been used for residential purposes.
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