ASIC has proposed that companies be required to disclose the basis for any forward-looking statements concerning climate, as part of new reporting obligations set to take effect next year.
A judge has overturned energy minister Chris Bowen’s refusal to greenlight energy company Seadragon’s offshore wind farm project off the coast of Gippsland.
Optus has been hit with a $12 million penalty over a “preventable” nationwide network outage in November 2023, which left thousands of customers unable to make emergency calls.
The corporate cop has launched a formal investigation after the airing of tax evasion allegations against Mineral Resources’ billionaire founder, Chris Ellison.
The Albanese government has taken aim at social media companies, proposing a world-first ban on access to their platforms for children under 16.
Professional services firms should be limited to 400 partners to improve accountability and transparency, a final parliamentary report into the PwC tax scandal has proposed.
In the first case of its kind, a government agency has filed proceedings against education technology company Chegg, alleging it has breached laws designed to prohibit academic cheating.
A novel bid to appeal the $112 million Robodebt class action settlement and bring new claims off the back of damning revelations in a royal commission report faces “significant hurdles”, a judge has said.
The High Court has found that requiring stateless refugees to wear ankle bracelets and comply with curfews to prevent future offending is unconstitutional.
Still feeling aftershocks from last year’s tax leaks scandal, PricewaterhouseCoopers has lost seven partners to the risk and regulatory team of Big Six law firm MinterEllison.