From 22 February 2018, the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme applies to organisations and agencies regulated by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This includes businesses [...]
Customers sold “add-on” insurance through car dealerships to receive refunds as a result of ASIC investigations The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that [...]
The importance for employers of properly defining employees’ roles and acceptable behaviours cannot be understated. Not only does it make it much easier for employers [...]
On 5 February 2018, the Federal Court fined three Melbourne based companies and their common director more than $7,800,000 for breaches of the financial services [...]
On 30 November 2017, the recently passed Federal legislation, Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Tax Integrity) Act (Cth.) 2017, received Royal Assent. As a result, foreign [...]
Consultation legislation has recently been released by the Commonwealth Government regarding new GST obligations for property transactions involving either: the sale of “new residential premises” [...]
With the Queensland State election being held on 25 November, the major parties have now released the detail of the policies that they would implement [...]
The saying “never mix family and money” rang true in the recent Queensland Court of Appeal decision Berghan & Anor v Berghan.[1] In this case, [...]
On 8 September 2017, the first scheme to license the labour hire industry in Australia passed through Queensland’s parliament. The scope of the LHL Act [...]