The Fair Work Commission (FWC) wage increase announcement

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has announced today that the national minimum wage will increase by $15.80 per week amounting to a 2.4% increase in [...]

E-Alert: Building, Construction and Infrastructure

Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. Well, sort of. Sometimes, those who can’t don’t teach. Sometimes, they supervise other people who can’t instead…. [...]

E-Alert: Are Oral Building Contracts enforcable?

In Nichols v Earth Spirit Homes Pty Ltd [2015] QCA 219 (Nichols), the Queensland Court of Appeal held that a contract for ‘building work’[1] which [...]

Unsolicited Offers: ‘Cleaning up’ the requirements for an exemption from mandatory Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure

Background The introduction of the Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010 (Cth) (the Act) created a scheme promoting the disclosure of information about the energy efficiency [...]