The Western Australian government has won its bid to strike out a class action that seeks damages for alleged discrimination against First Nations Australians detained for unpaid fines.
The Northern Territory public housing authority has been hit with a class action alleging it failed to maintain public housing to a habitable standard in remote Aboriginal communities.
A court has rejected the plans of a Clive Palmer-owned mining company to dig a coalmine in central Queensland, finding the mine would infringe on the human rights of First Nations people and future generations of Queenslanders, and contribute to “foreseeable and preventable life terminating harm”.
A group of Jewish and Israeli former students who have accused a Victorian high school of allowing racially-charged bullying have defeated a bid by the state government to adjourn evidence at trial after its silk was diagnosed with COVID-19.
The Albanese government has removed provisions from sex harassment legislation that passed the senate on Friday which would have forced parties to bear their own costs in harassment litigation, after dozens of lawyers expressed “deep concern”.
Sydney advisory and accounting firm Bentleys has been hit with a lawsuit by a former HR adviser alleging sexual assault, harassment and “exhibitionist and shocking behaviour” by a senior executive which left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Law firm Levitt Robinson is poised to bring a class action against the Western Australia government on behalf of detainees in the state’s Banksia Hill detention centre as reports of excessive use of force and restraints emerge.
A former receptionist who allegedly suffered sexual harassment by Australian cricket players and managers has lost her bid to bring her case against Cricket Tasmania out of time, despite her claims of suffering ill mental health.
The Albanese government has introduced legislation that would require employers to proactively take steps to prevent sexual discrimination, harassment and victimisation in the workplace.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has dropped a High Court appeal seeking to overturn a Full Court judgment that found a tweet by refugee activist Shane Bazzi labeling him a “rape apologist” was not defamatory.