A trial involving two of Queensland’s most high-profile lawyers is set to finally start, with claims they improperly obtained $20 million from the collapse of a Gold Coast financier that resulted in 1600 investors losing more than 10 times that amount.
An unholy row that led to an ‘altercation’ and high-ranking investigation has erupted at Brisbane’s Tattersall’s Club over classical music and ‘hidden cameras’.
Hundreds of Suncorp staff will work up to six days a week during key summer events, as the bank’s insurance arm admits its budget for natural disaster claims has fallen $205 million short, with expectations of worse to come.
One of Queensland’s major building suppliers owes creditors more than $5m after being hit by Covid-related supply chain problems in the lead up to Christmas. SEE LIST OF CREDITORS.
MAURICE Blackburn has become the first class action law firm to flag its interest in Corporate Travel Management, which suffered a 27 per cent share dive following a short-sell attack that sent $800m of value up in smoke in one day.
THERE were extraordinary scenes at the AGM of a credit union this week after an ex-director made a surprise appearance to defend his son-in-law – who was the boss of the business until he was sacked last year for ‘serious misconduct’.
PLANS for businessman Jamie Pherous’s high-end 50th birthday bash have been in the pipeline for a year. He couldn’t have imagined the big day would coincide with a week from hell.
DESPITE a theoretically prime location and plenty of foot traffic, the latest closure on one of Brisbane’s premium restaurant precincts is enough to make you wonder if it’s cursed.
MONTHS of hard work went into the well-co-ordinated ambush of the $3 billion Corporate Travel Management empire at the weekend. Now all eyes are on CTM’s rich lister founder.
WILL the sweeping new software management system now in development for Queensland’s Electoral Commission be vulnerable to Chinese hackers?
INVESTORS in the trainwreck that is Retail Food Group now have one more reason to be outraged. The astronomical bonuses the Gold Coast-based company’s top guns pocketed have been revealed despite an appalling $306.7 million net loss in the last financial year.
CRICKET legend Michael Clarke enthusiastically signed on as an “ambassador’’ for Gold Coast-based cryptocurrency startup Global Tech Exchange but it has fallen in a heap. .
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