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The ACCC has raised concerns that Singaporean agricultural giant Olam Agri Holding’s bid to acquire ASX-traded cotton ginner Namoi Cotton could reduce competition and stick cotton farmers with higher prices, one month after flagging similar concerns with Louis Dreyfus’ competing takeover proposal.
The United Firefighters Union has lost an appeal of two Fair Work Commission decisions, with the Full Federal Court finding that a commissioner did not err in deciding the matter at a later time.
Medibank failed to put in place baseline security measures, including multi-factor authentication, to safeguard sensitive information from a hacker in 2022, who stole an IT contractor's credentials and logged in to the health insurer's private network three months before the company learned its data was compromised, the OAIC says.
Journalist Lisa Wilkinson has filed a notice of contention in Bruce Lehrmann's appeal of a judgment that found he raped colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, claiming Lehrmann wasn't just indifferent to his victim's state of mind but knew she did not consent.
A judge has refused to allow an owners corporation to serve late expert evidence in its case against developer Mirvac over alleged defects in a Sydney apartment complex, saying a solicitor’s explanation about "competing commitments" was inadequate and "a circumstance shared by most members of the legal profession”.
A former Ernst & Young partner accused of promoting tax exploitation schemes wants to strike out portions of the ATO's case, but the tax office argues he has threatened the application since last year and is preoccupied with a satellite fight to keep his name out of the media.
An energy company has taken the minister for climate change and energy to court for refusing to greenlight its Seadragon wind farm project, which would have placed up to 150 wind turbines in waters off the coast of Gippsland, Victoria.
ASIC has secured freezing orders over the assets of an investment fund managed by Keystone Asset Management, with a court also ordering a Keystone director to surrender his passport amid an investigation by the corporate regulator.
Trial has been set for next May in a case by Australian parents that accuses EnergyAustralia of engaging in misleading conduct in promoting a "carbon neutral" program, a case that puts carbon offset credits under scrutiny.
The Full Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by human rights group Save the Children, which sought to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian camps, rejecting as "mere conjecture" claims that Home Affairs had a repatriation arrangement with an authority in Syria.