Showing 7 out of 7 results
Whistleblowing and the “compliance gap”: Australian regulator fires warning shot on whistleblower policies
'Set and forget' still too common on whistleblowing compliance, warns key business regulator.It’s almost 2 and a half years since new whistleblower …
Climate change: succeed in a net-zero future
The risks associated with climate change go way beyond the purely environmental.In our climate change briefing we consider at a high level the political, …
Securing Australia’s critical infrastructure: Government reforms will leave no sector untouched, but questions remain
On 9 November 2020, the Department of Home Affairs released the Exposure Draft of the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020 …
Irony and the opportunity for generational reform of Australia’s Workplace Laws
There is some irony that the party which entered the 2019 federal election campaign with no IR policy now has the chance of a generation to make enduring …
A mega boost for the mega projects of the future
At a business breakfast in Perth on Wednesday 15 May, Bill Shorten announced an important policy the ALP will pursue if it achieves Government after this …
Environmental laws trump Linc Energy creditors
Today the Queensland Supreme Court held that an insolvent company’s environmental obligations under State law were unaffected by the liquidators’ …
Queensland environmental laws trump Commonwealth Corporations Act, liquidators are ’executive officers’
Today the Queensland Supreme Court confirmed that the liquidators of an insolvent company are ‘executive officers’ of that company under Queensland’s …
Showing 7 out of 7 results