Element Zero has lodged an appeal against a judge’s decision to let mining giant Fortescue seize millions of files from the homes and offices of its staff as part of an intellectual property fight.
Academic and cultural experts exchanged emails and text messages coaching each other on how to use a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map to block Santos’s Barossa project in the Timor Sea.
The Attorney-General has refused to answer questions over whether he would exercise his powers to ignore the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.
Administrators of Melbourne-based funds management company Keystone say it may have traded while insolvent, as they rejected a bid for control of the company.
After giving a grieving father the run-around for a year before paying out his son’s death benefit, Cbus is still refusing to give him key details about the make-up of the payment.
Former staff who worked at an award-winning architectural firm have sounded the alarm about the sector’s governance as bullying complaints pile up.
A former notorious conwoman who has become one of the nation’s most active fundraisers will have to show she has properly accounted for donations.
News of the Australian prisoners’ intended transfer threatens to become a political football just days before Indonesian regional elections this Wednesday.
The Coalition has demanded that Anthony Albanese explain the circumstances behind the deal to transfer the remaining Bali Nine smuggling ring prisoners from Indonesia to Australia.
By announcing he would seek arrest warrants before hearing what the Israelis had to say at those talks, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan provided compelling evidence of his own bias.
Heloise Pratt made the surprise move to take ex-husband Alex Waislitz to court in a battle of billionaires. But behind the scenes are long-standing family tensions and rivalries.
Shares in fund manager GQG Partners plunged on Thursday after it said it was monitoring bribery charges brought against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani in the US.
Ben Huynh – facing allegations he dealt with millions in the proceeds of crime – is demanding cars seized in a raid last year be returned, hiring celebrity lawyer Bryan Wrench and launching legal action in the Federal Court.
Streaming giant Netflix is facing claims its Australian marketing director told his pregnant staff member she was ‘catastrophising’ a medical condition, before her position was axed.
The boss of failed building giant Privium Group said he did not recall the source of millions of dollars allegedly paid into companies linked to a Christian charity he set up.
Heloise Pratt has accused her estranged husband of acting ‘dishonestly’ by paying himself and his charitable foundation $1m-plus without approval.
The Communications Minister’s MAD Bill may be losing support, but she is not for turning.
The Labor-friendly law firm has been accused of deliberately miscalculating staff leave entitlements, failing to immediately reconcile the underpayments, and sacking the human resources boss who blew the whistle.
A former ANZ trader is claiming the bank could have ‘vindicated’ him after incorrectly claiming he was involved in market manipulation.
Three years after building giant Privium’s spectacular $80 million collapse, which left more than 700 homes unfinished, its founder has told a court what he’d planned to do with a percentage of its profits.
An alarming email to staff at Alice Springs Local Court has whistleblowers warning the NT justice system is now teetering ‘on a cliff edge’.
The NAAJA has apologised ‘without reservation’ to Priscilla Atkins after the Federal Court found its board unlawfully sacked her after she raised allegations of corruption against senior staff.
Tech guru and former Jones protege Alex Hartman died in Switzerland at the age of 39 not long after making allegations of indecent assault against the star broadcaster.
Big super trustees are on notice from regulators about their failures to track death claims as the $4 trillion industry faces a much broader crackdown.
A court has found a Melbourne businessman abused his position in a business that turns vegetable waste into clean drinking water.
Veteran radio broadcaster Ray Hadley may play ‘some sort of other role’ in the case against his former colleague Alan Jones, as friends rallied behind the accused broadcaster.
Canberra’s peak barristers body says Lucy McCallum’s claims she does not understand why jurors ‘find it so hard to believe’ rape allegations may lead people to believe juries are ‘getting it wrong’ on sexual assault.
When detectives arrived at Alan Jones’s harbourside apartment to arrest him over allegations of indecent assault, a familiar face was running just a few beats behind them.
Gregory Geason tendered his resignation from the Supreme Court ‘with immediate effect’ after he was convicted of assaulting and emotionally abusing his former fiancee.
Seven has finalised a case brought by ex-Spotlight producer Amelia Saw which threatened to expose the network’s ‘dirty linen’, but the details of the settlement are to be kept a secret.
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