E-alert: Historic Award Penalty Rates Decision – Fair Work Commission Reduces Weekend and Public Holiday Penalty Rates

The Fair Work Commission today handed down its long awaited and politically sensitive decision about whether long standing penalty rates on weekends and public holidays [...]

PPSR error leads to $23million loss and confirms the court’s view that form trumps function

An apparently simple administrative error in a PPSR registration has resulted in a significant financial loss for a lessor. In In the matter of OneSteel [...]

New professional standards regime – financial advisers

New legislation mandating professional standards for financial planners and advisers was passed in the House of Representatives. The Corporations Amendment (Professional Standards of Financial Advisers) [...]

State-wide lockout not to proceed – update for pubs and clubs

The State Government has confirmed that it will not proceed with the previously proposed 1am lockout for licensed premises.  The lockout was proposed to commence [...]