The Queensland Government has opened five new areas of Queensland’s Bowen Basin for tenders to explore for coking and thermal coal. ...
The Queensland Government has opened five new areas of Queensland’s Bowen Basin for tenders to explore for coking and thermal coal.
There have been several cases where SMSF advisers have been held liable for loss suffered in an SMSF. However, in a recent case, the AAT did not accept a director of an SMSF trustee blaming their accountant for SMSF compliance breaches.
The AAT has upheld the disqualification of a director of a trustee of an SMSF in Fitzmaurice and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2019] AATA 2217.
We get asked this question a lot. There appears to be a lot of uncertainty about when a relationship becomes a de facto relationship. This isn’t surprising given that different agencies, such as Centrelink or the Department of Immigration, apply different rules.
In this New South Wales District Court decision, an employer was found liable for the deliberate actions of a manager who verbally and physically bullied the plaintiff over a period of 14 months.
In Rhodin v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2019] ACTSC 207, the ACT Supreme Court delivered a substantial verdict against Coles in favour of a delicatessen attendant following a slip and fall on ice in a seafood cool room.
Under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), Australian entities or ‘entities that carry on business in Australia’ with a yearly consolidated revenue of at least $100 million will be required to submit a modern slavery report.
The Northern Territory Government has supported the introduction of new ‘industrial manslaughter’ provisions within the Workplace Health and Safety Act, promising to implement the changes in 2020. This comes as a response to an incident in 2016 that saw a man run over and killed by a prime mover in
Woolworths has agreed to an Enforceable Undertaking (ET) with NT WorkSafe for an amount of $1.8 million after a man was run over and killed by a subcontractor’s prime mover in October 2016 at the Hibiscus Shopping Centre.
New ‘lemon laws’ will afford buyers of defective motor vehicles additional avenues of redress and protections from 1 September 2019.
In Ayre v Swan [2019] NSWCA 2020, the New South Wales Court of Appeal increased a contributory negligence finding to 80% because of the plaintiff’s grossly excessive speed.
The purpose of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) (EP Act) is to protect Queensland’s environment and prevent environmental harm. The duties and obligations imposed by the EP Act are significant, and liability for non-compliance attaches to a broad range of potential offenders.
Cooper Grace Ward acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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