Earlier this year we considered recent overseas developments in the age assurance space. Here's a snapshot of the latest developments at home. During May 2025 eSafety called for members of the ...

On 30 June 2025, the Federal Government released a Gas Market Review Consultation Paper, announcing a review of the rules governing Australia's gas markets. The Review will examine key instruments ...

It seems like only yesterday that we were putting our best laid EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plans into action – so many contract reviews and updates, gearing up for high volumes of ...

The EPA is significantly reforming its licensing system under the POEO Act, with a focus on introducing near-real time reporting of non-compliances, a new more dynamic risk-based system (to replace 5 ...

ASIC ultimately settled its whistleblowing case against TerraCom in exchange for TerraCom paying a $7.5 million penalty and $1 million for ASIC's costs, subject to Court approval. ASIC's separate case ...

Rainforest Reserves also argued that certain conditions attached to the decision made the approval uncertain because they involved ambiguous methods for determining thresholds in the Bird and Bat ...

ASIC is taking a closer look at the quality of compliance plans, including whether they include all compliance obligations and set out adequate measures to address each obligation.

Done well, risk management is not a bureaucratic function, it is an enabling function, and can be significantly lower cost than remediation after the fact. The NSW Risk Management Toolkit, if applied ...

It aligns with earlier authority (Future Revelation Ltd v Medica Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Pty Ltd [2013] NSWSC 1741) that a defect in the secured party's details does not automatically invalidate ...

Directors and officers are exposed to liability if they fail to address a risk that a reasonable person in their position would address, and it does not have to be shown that loss or damage from the ...

A "Mayne Material Adverse Change" included a quantitative threshold, defined in the SID as matters “reasonably expected to have the effect of diminishing the consolidated Maintainable EBITDA over a 12 ...