The Stake gaming empire founded by Australian rich-lister Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani is facing a US lawsuit that alleges one of its online ‘social casinos’ is operating illegally in California.
A wealthy Sydney family is working out how to avoid having to demolish an alleged underground basketball court after a complaint revealed its basement is metres deeper than approved plans allow.
The Albanese government has won its case against two foreign drug dealers who were seeking to expand the NZYQ ruling to apply to non-citizens being held in detention while their visas are being processed.
Youth offenders charged with attempted murder and rape in Queensland will face harsher penalties in a broadening of the state’s flagship ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws.
A Wagga Wagga storefront display featuring images of Peter Dutton and mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer in Nazi-like regalia has been reported to police.
Anthony Albanese has pledged Labor will outlaw supermarket price gouging. Could Australia take inspiration from similar laws in the European Union or the US? It’s complicated.
Mould, honeycombing cement and damp are among the litany of alleged defects plaguing a luxury apartment block built by Larry Kestelman’s building company.
A US special envoy is scheduled to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo for talks crucial to Australian minerals company AVZ’s hope of regaining control of a lithium project.
The liquidator of Impact Gold says there appears to be no evidence held by the company indicating it had any tenure in PNG, or has any gold to show for its years of work.
One of Australia’s best-known naturalists, John Young, hid in dense rainforest in north Queensland for more than a year, avoiding a concerted police hunt for him over undisclosed charges.
NBL owner Larry Kestelman is adamant he won’t sell the league but as club bosses demand a greater financial share, his dispute with Illawarra Hawks owner Jared Novelly has gone public.
The Federal Court has thrown out billionaire Clive Palmer’s legal fights against James Shipton, ex-chair of Australia’s corporate cop.
Entain, which owns online betting platforms Ladbrokes and Neds, is hoping to nip an anti-money laundering case brought against it last year in the bud.
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The brother of missing NSW mother Bronwyn Winfield hopes the case is ‘heading in the right direction’ after the state coroner’s office replied to his call to search a Sydney property.
Under-siege industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild has attacked in court private equity firm FitzWalter over its demand for an immediate $800m repayment from GFG Alliance.
Chris Minns says it would be ‘completely unacceptable’ for the state prosecution office to leak information about an underage Aboriginal defendant to a commercial radio station.
A guide for NSW barristers includes a glossary of alternative pronouns to male and female – such as ‘xe/xem/xyrs’ – and discourages barristers from using terms such as ‘transitioning’ or ‘transgendered’.
The Albanese government could have headed off claims it has no appetite for reform when a report into corporate and financial services regulation landed. But it failed to do so.
Victoria Police charged two women after a ‘suspicious package’ was left at a Geelong office linked to the Avalon Airshow, prompting a response from the bomb squad.
The office of NSW chief prosecutor Sally Dowling has refused to disclose whether she was aware confidential information was to be leaked to a radio station.
Overhauling provisions that don’t appear to pass the proverbial pub test is overdue, says The Australian’s workplace editor, Ewin Hannan.
Tanya Plibersek is paying a personal political price for Anthony Albanese’s pro-salmon farming law, polling suggests, as a Hollywood superstar weighs in.
A struggling company could lose its licence after copping a fine from authorities, years after a multimillion deal with convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried fell through.
The legal giant on Tuesday referred a former employee to Victoria Police who they believe was behind a ‘premeditated and carefully planned’ email attack on the firm.
The former Spotlight producer’s claim centres on allegations Seven made comments breaching a confidential deed of settlement signed shortly after his departure from the company.
A state police force has fired a warning shot at those who might believe they have got away with historical sex offending: don’t be too confident.
Students and academics have criticised Monash University’s law PhD course, which forces students to critique their thesis based on Marxist, feminist and critical race and queer theory.
Mo Munshi’s complaint to the UN spells out details of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment while in prison and the ongoing punishment of a travel ban.
Tony Watson lost his home, job, friends, and a boatload of money in his fight to show he was dumped over trying to stop Lendlease’s $300m ‘tax dodge’. He’s not alone.
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