The High Court has found a 15 per cent âbackpacker taxâ imposed on holders of Australian working holiday visas violates a double taxation agreement between Australia and the UK.
The Morrison government decision’s to enter into a contract with a subsidiary of Empire Energy for gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin was an effort to “stymie” climate change litigation brought against the federal resources minister, a court has heard.
BlueScope general manager Jason Ellis made executives of a steel distributor âextremely uncomfortableâ in a meeting where he presented the steel giantâs price list, a court hearing the ACCCâs price-fixing case was told Monday.
The federal government is seeking to avoid a representative proceeding brought on behalf of Indigenous men alleging its failure to âclose the gapâ in life expectancy necessitates a lower age eligibility for their fair and equal access to the age pension.
BlueScope Steel general manager Jason Ellis was not an honest witness and did not express genuine regret when he apologised for obstructing an ACCC investigation, a court hearing the regulatorâs price-fixing case was told Tuesday.
Three companies operated by convicted accountant Vanda Gould have failed again to block further cross examination of Gould by the Commissioner of Taxation in a number of tax appeals in the Federal Court.
Approving coal mine projects is not the business of courts, the Morrison government has argued in its challenge to a landmark class action judgment that found it had a duty of care to protect Australian children from the effects of climate change.
A judge has adjourned trial in the defamation case by accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith to early 2022, saying relocation was not practical after COVID-19 restrictions prevented Fairfaxâs witnesses travelling to Sydney.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer and two of his mining firms have lost a High Court challenge seeking to overturn a Western Australian law which prevented him from suing the state government for $30 billion over mining tenements in the Pilbara.
Five enforcement officers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be cross-examined by lawyers for banks facing price fixing charges over their conduct following ANZ’s $2.5 billion capital raising six years ago.