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Griffin Coal charged with breaches of financial reporting, company officer obligations
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-03-28 5:37 pm By Sam Matthews

Embattled mining company Griffin Coal is facing criminal prosecution following a referral from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission over alleged failures to meet financial reporting and officeholder requirements.

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WA Attorney General says he made ‘mistakes’ under oath in Clive Palmer trial
Defamation 2022-03-24 10:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

WA Attorney-General John Quigley wants a second go at his trial testimony in a defamation case brought by mining magnate Clive Palmer, admitting he made “mistakes” while giving evidence in the witness box.

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High Court grants Western Power special leave in bushfire class action
High Court 2022-03-22 2:17 pm By Miklos Bolza

The High Court will hear a challenge by Western Power to an appeals court judgment which found that the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty of care to inspect power poles on private land and was partly liable for property damage from the 2014 Perth Hills bushfire.

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Doral defeats ‘speculative’ pre-action discovery bid over $32M Keysbrook mine sale
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-03-15 5:54 pm By Miklos Bolza

Doral Mineral Sands has successfully blocked a pre-action discovery bid by an irate shareholder over losses stemming from the $32 million Keysbrook mine sale, with the Western Australia Supreme Court finding that any case against Doral was “mere assertion, conjecture or suspicion”

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WA premier thanked media mogul for front page depicting Clive Palmer as a cockroach, court told
Defamation 2022-03-09 9:13 pm By Sam Matthews

WA premier Mark McGowan’s text messages between Kerry Stokes and the WA Attorney General have been revealed at the trial in Clive Palmer’s defamation case, including an exchange in which the state’s leader thanks the media baron for the “marvellous front pages”.

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Palmer salvages defence in spat with CITIC over $5.8B Sino Iron project
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-03-09 1:33 pm By Miklos Bolza

An appeal by billionaire Clive Palmer and his mining company Mineralogy has succeeded in reinstating parts of their defence attacking the state of mind of Hong Kong-based conglomerate CITIC in allegedly applying commercial pressure over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia.

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WA premier says death threats followed Clive Palmer’s ‘outrageous’ remarks
Trials 2022-03-07 9:39 pm By Sam Matthews

Taking the stand Monday in a defamation dispute with mining billionaire Clive Palmer, WA premier Mark McGowan said Palmer’s “hurtful and outrageous” public comments led to death threats against his wife and family.

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Court tosses challenges to Woodside expansion of Scarborough LNG project
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-03-02 11:21 am By Miklos Bolza

The WA Supreme Court has thrown out challenges to Woodside Energy’s proposals to expand its Scarborough LNG project, finding there were no errors in the state EPA’s approval.

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‘Vicious rhetoric’: WA premier’s remarks about Clive Palmer more than name-calling
Defamation 2022-02-14 10:20 pm By Sam Matthews

Comments made about Clive Palmer by Western Australia premier Mark McGowan in press conferences were ā€œheavy with historical and sinister significanceā€, a court has heard on the first day of trial in the mining billionaire’s defamation case.Ā 

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Ben Roberts-Smith described killing of Afghan teen as ‘most beautiful thing’, court told
Defamation 2022-02-11 1:16 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Australiaā€™s most decorated Afghanistan war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a former SAS soldier that when he ā€œblew the brains outā€ of a young Afghan man it was ā€œthe most beautiful thing [heā€™d] ever seenā€, a court has heard.

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