During the past two years, Australia has witnessed significant business-crime cases, including large-scale loan fraud syndicates, multi-million-dollar Ponzi schemes and insider fraud at major ...

Global experience, even in countries like Denmark with massive world-leading renewables already deployed, show that at a minimum around a 20 per cent baseload dependency remains important. In the ...

Relief expires 1 April 2026. The current exemption under ASIC Corporations (Employee redundancy funds relief) Instrument 2015/1150 will not be remade. From that date, operators must comply with ...

For issuers, this emphasises that simply issuing a questionnaire is not enough to discharge their reasonable steps obligations – instead, issuers need to review and assess the responses being provided ...

Subscription traps in digital markets: While last year’s priorities focused on misleading or deceptive advertising in the digital economy, this year the ACCC is prioritising manipulative and false ...

On 9 February 2026, Treasury announced a consultation on draft laws proposed to amend the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL) to strengthen consumer protection by introducing targeted reforms on ...

In 2026, Australia faces renewed pressure by the Trump administration to spend more on its own defence. Current spending hovers at approximately 2% of Australia's GDP ($59 billion for 2025-26), with ...

In late 2025, the Federal Court delivered a landmark decision ordering Fewstone Pty Ltd, trading as City Beach, to pay $14 million in penalties for breaches of mandatory button battery safety and ...

A wide-ranging parliamentary Inquiry into the development and regulation of data centres across New South Wales is underway, with a final report from the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability ...

The test for whether a term is unfair is not so clear that contract drafters can have absolute confidence that they can prevent an automatic renewal clause from falling foul of the unfair contract ...

To use the newly introduced “public interest defence”, it's vitally important for a publisher to demonstrate that the steps they took to inform themselves of matters relevant to their belief were ...

While the thought of a change to the five-day grind is exciting, and some employers are looking to trial and adopt this new industrial model, there are a number of factors to consider and address to ...