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Property developer Villawood has argued that a company incorporated to manage a project in regional Victoria can't withdraw admissions over an alleged fraudulent scheme by a former director to divert management fees. 

An environmental group has lost its bid to stop slashing works at a development site at Brunswick Heads, after a judge tossed its lawsuit seeking to block the 123-lot residential development.

The Queensland Land Court has recommended the approval of Bowen Basin Coal's Meadowbrook project to extend its Lake Vermont open cut coal mine near Dysart, over objections from environmental activists.

A judge has declined a builder's bid for a recording during an adjournment, despite finding the recording was not of a court proceeding because the hearing had been suspended at the time.

Former Today host Karl Stefanovic is being sued by his podcast business partner, who alleges oppressive conduct and is seeing a buyout of her shares. 

The Northern Territory's public housing authority can amend its defence in a class action alleging it failed to maintain habitable housing in remote Aboriginal communities to allege that tenants failed to keep housing "reasonably clean".

A company controlled by Paul Chiodo has lobbed a $200 million suit targeting City Built director Roberto Filippini, with the former Keystone director joining the company's liquidators in chasing millions in allegedly misappropriated development funds.

Construction firm Civmec has sued the joint venture behind the $8 billion Sydney Metro Northwest project seeking enforcement of an arbitration award. 

Administrators of OneSteel Manufacturing will shutter the blast furnace at the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia and let 600 workers go, after the failure of recovery efforts to restore operations.

A Singapore developer has failed in an application for a 13-storey hotel and residential redevelopment of the heritage-listed GIO building in Sydney's Haymarket.