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Engineering company Monadelphous Group has won a $380 million construction contract with CS Energy for a new Queensland power plant. 

Clive Palmer's resort company Palmer Leisure Coolum has entered a guilty plea to one count of breaching takeover law arising from the proposed acquisition of The President’s Club.

Twenty-one former property owners at the site of the troubled 55-storey Halo Project skyscraper in the Sydney CBD have won access to a contract entered with Cbus Property shortly before developer FT Sydney went into administration. 

The Supreme Court of Victoria has agreed to transfer a case against the former CEO of ASX-listed software company Dubber and its solicitor to the Federal Court, to be heard alongside a case against auditor BDO and civil penalty proceedings by ASIC.

Shell is seeking to recover $83 million from former joint venture partners Woodside and Paladin after the Commonwealth imposed a levy to cover the cost of decommissioning an abandoned offshore oil platform off the coast of Darwin.

The federal environment minister has rejected two emergency applications to declare the planned site for an Olympic stadium at Brisbane's Victoria Park a significant Aboriginal heritage area. 

NSW Police has argued the lead plaintiff in a class action over strip searches at music festivals should only receive $33,000 in damages rather than $93,000 and is challenging a finding that the strip searches were done “as a matter of routine”.

A New South Wales-based Aboriginal charity can't make submissions in support of a former coal mine's pivot to biomass fuel, with a court rejecting the argument that its concerns would not otherwise be raised. 

A five-story office building in East Perth that has held a long-term lease with the government of Western Australia has sold for $10 million. 

Woolworths has take Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop Authority to court, alleging it's owed $70 million for the authority's compulsory acquisition of a logistics site in the Melbourne suburb of Notting Hill.