Industries

The engineering company behind the world-first Kwinana energy transformation hub in WA has lost a bid to strike out fraud claims from a case by the CFMEU over an enterprise agreement covering maintenance workers.

Indicative of Australia's housing crisis is new data showing a drop in apartment construction, according to the country's peak building group, with last year the worst for higher-density home building since 2011.

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over alleged loss-making Pie Face stores has been ordered to hand over $3.7 million in security, with a judge finding it was not likely to stultify the class action.

Brokerage firm International Capital Markets says a class action over risky financial products must put up or shut up when it comes to claims in the case that neither applicant has standing to bring.

Clorox has been hit with a $8.25 million penalty for representing to consumers that certain GLAD garbage bags were sourced from plastic fished from the ocean.

The corporate regulator has brought enforcement action against Wiluna Mining, accusing the gold mining operation of misleading conduct over a capital raising a month before it went under.

Clayton Utz has become the latest tenant in a new commercial precinct under development in Canberra's CBD.

Real estate landlord Dexus is suing South Australia's medical research insitute for failing to execute on 30-year leases to occupy Adelaide's Australian Bragg Centre, despite "repeated demands".

A consortium including Acciona, UGL and others has been selected for pre-construction work on Queensland's Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail project, which aims to reduce congestion ahead of the 2032 Olympic Games.

A court's finding that EnergyAustralia is on the hook for portable long service leave for maintenance workers at its Yallourn power station because its "significant' maintenance activities mean it's 'in the construction industry' could affect energy, rail and telecommunications firms.