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| Jul 12, 2024 | Australian gallery's Picasso exhibit that sparked a gender war weren't actually the Spanish painter's work | An Australian art gallery sparked a gender war when it decided to display so-called works by Pablo Picasso in an exhibition restricted to women visitors. But now, it has been revealed the artworks at the center of the uproar were not really... |
| May 24, 2024 | All Eyes on The Hague: The ICC Prosecutor’s Move against Hamas and Israeli Leaders | On 20 May, Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced that he had “reasonable grounds to believe” that senior leaders of Hamas and Israel have committed a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity sinc... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Faux-Alliances: AUKUS and the Quad are No Asian NATO | Despite the often-repeated assertion that the Quad and AUKUS are alliances, and the prospective progenitors of a future Asian NATO, the truth is much more benign. While they have important roles to play in Australia’s regional strategy, the... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Missing receipts sink Queensland director’s $50,000 claim for work-related tax deductions | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
A Queensland managing director has been unsuccessful in his bid to claim nearly $50,000 in business travel, accommodation, and food costs as income tax deductions, with a recent ruling by the Adminis... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Tax experts wait for further clarity after major AAT ruling on trust distributions and loans | article-article-body
Small business tax advisors are carefully assessing an Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision that challenges the Australian Taxation Office’s interpretation of specific trust distribution rules, with one leading acco... |
| Feb 27, 2023 | BREAKING: Perfect Day animal-free dairy patent in US challenged | A US patent recently granted to Perfect Day, one of the highest-profile startups in the emerging ‘animal-free’ dairy field, has been challenged by an anonymous petitioner.
The request has not yet been published on the US Patent and Trademar... |
| Dec 3, 2022 | A couple accused of spending $10.5M sent in error by Crypto.com on houses, a car, furniture and gifts face trial for theft | A couple is facing trial for theft after allegedly spending millions of dollars sent by Crypto.com.
Prosecutors say Thevamanogari Manivel and Jatinder Singh went on a spending spree with the funds.
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A couple are facing a trial ... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Qld gov lands favourable decision in Optus-NBN fibre dispute | Optus is unable to run fibre through an NBN Co conduit attached to a bridge in Gympie without the specific consent of the bridge’s owner, the Queensland state government, according to a majority ruling by the Full Federal Court.
The telco h... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Judge Rules in Favor for Crypto.com Over $7.1 Million Mistakenly Sent: Platform is Suing for Refund Plus 10% Interest and Legal Fees | Urian B., Tech Times 01 September 2022, 08:09 pm
Crypto.com, a platform that Matt Damon himself endorsed, is suing a woman after accidentally sending her $7.1 million in refund instead of $58. As per allegations, the woman has spent and tra... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Cryptocurrency firm accidentally sent $10.5 million rather than $100 to Australian woman but took 7 months to realize | Crypto.com accidentally sent a woman $10.5 million rather than $100, per a legal document.
It only noticed seven months later after carrying out an audit, per the judgment.
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A cryptocurrency exchange company accidentally transf... |
| Aug 9, 2022 | Australian court finds insurer not liable for ransomware clean-up costs | An Australian lawsuit over ransomware insurance cover has ruled the victim, automotive distributor and services firm Inchcape, can’t claim costs it incurred in the clean-up and recovery from the attack, such as for forensics, incident respo... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Why the ACCC is suing Meta over crypto scam ads, and what it could mean for digital platforms if it wins | Source: Shutterstock.
On the last day of his 11 years as chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Rod Sims announced the commission is bringing a “world-first” claim against Meta (owner of Facebook) in the Federal... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | ACIC 'strategic assessment' on encryption stays out of public view | A 2015 "strategic assessment" of the "ramifications" of encryption on law enforcement intelligence-gathering in Australia will remain out of public view, after a decision to withhold it was upheld by the acting freedom o... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Keybridge Capital : Corporate Governance Statement | For personal use only
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT
INTRODUCTION
The Board of Directors is committed to maintaining high standards of safety, performance and corporate governance for Keybridge Capital Limited (Company or Keybridge) and the... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Keybridge Capital : Supplementary 2021 Notice of AGM and Explanatory Statement | For personal use only
SUPPLEMENTARY
NOTICE OF
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
and
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
TO SHAREHOLDERS
Date and Time of Meeting: 11:00am (Melbourne time)
on Monday, 24 January 2022
Place of Meeting: Roof Top Conference Room
Level 7
... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Keybridge Capital : 2021 Notice of AGM, Explanatory Statement and Proxy Form | For personal use only
17 November 2021
Letter to Shareholders - Annual General Meeting of Keybridge Capital Limited
Dear Shareholder
Keybridge Capital Limited (ASX: KBC) (Keybridge or the Company) advises that it will be holding its Annual ... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Vic motorist sues Toyota Australia for car navi's 'silly' routes | A Victorian motorist has unsuccessfully tried to claim "around $3000" in damages from Toyota over the quality of the navigation system in its Koba SUVs and the software’s predilection for “silly”, circuitous or non-existent routes... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | If I catch COVID-19 at work, what are my rights? What employees are entitled to if they get sick on the job | The transition to ‘living with COVID’ makes contracting the virus at work a distinct possibility, even with high vaccination rates. So what are your rights as an Australian employee if you catch COVID-19, particularly if you believe you hav... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Orion Equities : Corporate Governance Statement - 2021 | CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT
INTRODUCTION
The Board of Directors is committed to maintaining high standards of safety, performance and corporate governance for Orion Equities Limited (Company or Orion) and the entities it controls (Group ... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Суд в Австралии признал, что СМИ ответственны за содержание комментариев под их постами в соцсетях | Постановление Верховного суда Австралии опубликовано на его официальном сайте.
Суд признал, что средства массовой информации и медиа несут ответственность за то, что пользователи социальных сетей пишут под их постами в социальных сетях, в ч... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Rupert Murdoch Learns Why Intermediary Liability Protections Matter: Australia Says Media Orgs Can Be Sued Over Facebook Comments | Ah, Australia. The country down under has always taken an upside down view on intermediary liability laws — quite quick to blame an intermediary for 3rd party content. Two years ago we wrote about a problematic ruling in Australia based on ... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Суд Австралии: СМИ несут ответственность за комментарии на их страницах в соцсетях | Медиакомпании в Австралии будут нести ответственность за комментарии, которые читатели оставляют на их страницах в соцсетях, если в комментариях содержится клевета и оскорбления. К такому решению пришел Верховный суд страны.
По мнению суда,... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Rupert Murdoch Learns Why Intermediary Liability Protections Matter: Australia Says Media Orgs Can Be Sued Over Facebook Comments | Ah, Australia. The country down under has always taken an upside down view on intermediary liability laws -- quite quick to blame an intermediary for 3rd party content. Two years ago we wrote about a problematic ruling in Australia based on... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | CBA avoids court-ordered notifications in its banking app | The Commonwealth Bank managed to convince the federal court not to order it to publish misconduct notices inside of its banking app, where they could be seen by all 6.3 million app users.
The bank was yesterday ordered to “publish notices o... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | RURAL FUNDS GROUP
Rural Funds : ASIC publishes INFO255 to establish rules for activist short sellers | While ASIC information sheet INFO255 is a welcome attempt to establish workable rules for 'activist short sellers', we query whether the guidance appropriately balances the interests of activists and their targets.
Activism has become a ubi... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | Orion Equities : Change of Substantial Shareholder Notice in SRK | 20210608 OEQ and QUE Change of Substantial Shareholder Notice in SRK.docx
Form 604
Corporations Act
671B
Notice of change in interests of substantial holder
To: Company Name/Scheme: STRIKE RESOURCES LIMITED (ASX:SRK)
ABN 94 088 488 724
1. D... |
| May 4, 2021 | Further insolvency reforms on the table, but government warned against “piecemeal” approach | Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg arrives to speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
Insolvency practitioners have welcomed a federal government commitment to consult on furth... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | 63 MOONS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Inside Track: Superannuation, Funds Management & Financial Services - In the media, In practice and courts, Cases and Legislation | In the media
Mounting criticism of super legislation as deadline draws near
AIST - 1 April 2021 - the Federal Government's changes to superannuation are due to take effect on July 1 this year. This week, the employer organisation the Ai Gro... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Federal Court orders trio to pay $9.4 million over exploitative tax scheme | A solicitor, financial planner and accountant have been penalised more than $9.4 million by the Federal Court for their involvement in a four-year long tax exploitation scheme that affected at least 200 businesses and individuals.
An invest... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Federal Court ruling against ATO could open door to more JobKeeper claims | A decision by the full bench of the Federal Court that ruled in favour of sole trader Jeremy Apted could open the gates for more businesses to retrospectively gain access to coronavirus stimulus payments, including JobKeeper wage subsidies,... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | How researchers are using data science to map wage theft | The underpayment of 7-Eleven workers brought wage theft to pubic attention. Source: Getty.
What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’.
Wage theft is the popu... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | More SMEs could be eligible for JobKeeper and cash flow payments following ATO appeal and IGoT review | ATO commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
More small and medium businesses could become eligible for both JobKeeper and the federal government’s ‘cash flow boost’ payments, depending on the outcome of an appe... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | ATO seeks urgent appeal over tribunal’s decision to grant sole trader access to JobKeeper | The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has lodged an appeal in the Federal Court in a bid to overturn a decision made by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) in December that granted a sole trader access to JobKeeper payments.
The ATO wi... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Sole trader granted access to JobKeeper after tribunal overturns ATO decision | The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) says it is considering appealing a ruling by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) that gave access to JobKeeper payments to a business owner who was previously deemed ineligible for the wage subsidi... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | A company used Google ads to target sacked Australian workers, promising unfair dismissal payouts. Many clients say they were never paid. | An Australian company called Unfair Dismissals Direct has been using Google advertising to target recently sacked employees, promising to represent them in unfair dismissal claims on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
But interviews with former clien... |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Flight Centre hackathon behind 2017 breach, exposed 6918 customers' data | A 2017 data breach at Flight Centre occurred when passport and credit card numbers for 6918 customers were accidentally left in a dataset used by the participants of a hackathon.
Details of the breach are revealed in a determination by the ... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Legal Loophole Opens $10 Billion Compensation Claim For Mauritius Oil Spill | 16 Aug: Wakashio splits in two after 12 days dragging along Mauritius' coral reefs, causing one of ... [+] the most expensive bunker fuel spills in history. AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Robodebt was a policy fiasco with a human cost we have yet to fully appreciate | Photo: Getty
Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The Robodebt class action bought by Gordon Legal has been settled at a cost to the government of around $1.2 billion. According to federal Labor ... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Business owner fined $40,000 for falsely claiming to be a registered tax agent | A business owner who falsely claimed she was a registered tax agent has been fined $40,000 by the Federal Court after she unlawfully provided tax agent services to hundreds of people in the space of four years.
Melbourne resident Arlene Cao... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED
Telstra : Victorian government bulletin – In the media, in practice and courts, published articles, papers and reports, cases and legislation | Victorian government seeking legal advice overdraft foreign relations laws
The Andrews government is seeking legal advice on proposed new federal laws which could tear up its controversial Belt and Road agreement with China, potentially set... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | Telstra loses to Optus in network coverage ad case | Telstra has lost a court case against rival Optus over advertisements it claimed could mislead consumers on whose mobile network had better coverage.
The advertisements stated that Optus was now “covering more of [Australia/State] than ever... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Explainer: What is a state of disaster? And what it means for you | A “state of disaster” has been declared for the whole of Victoria from 6pm, Sunday August 2, for a month. How is this different from the existing “state of emergency” and what powers does it give the Andrews government? What is the differen... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Unfair dismissal docs lost in Fair Work IT outages | Unfair dismissal applications and other other documents were lost for good during two outages of the Fair Work Commission’s online lodgement service earlier this year.
The service disruptions, which took place on April 1 and May 31, impacte... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inside track: Construction & infrastructure – In the media and cases | Building efficiency for jobs and growth
An advocacy agenda released today by a coalition of industry bodies is calling on governments to make every building count in Australia's economic recovery (21 July 2020). More...
AIA survey reveals n... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | From 7-Eleven to Aus Pol: The rapid expansion of facial recognition technology in Australia, and the laws keeping it in check | By Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being trialled and deployed around Australia. Queensland and Western Australia are reportedly already using real-time facial recognition through CCTV... |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Siemens chases Telstra customers over alleged cracked software use | Siemens Industry Software has moved to unmask the owners of 20 users of IP addresses within Telstra’s ranges that it believes used cracked versions of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software.
The industrial software maker obtained a... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED
National Australia Bank : NABs reputation takes it over the bridge | In the Registrar's decision of National Australia Bank Limited [2020] ATMO 41 (19 March 2020), National Australia Bank ("NAB") has successfully relied upon the their significant reputation in Australia to overcome citations of pri... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | FUCHS PETROLUB SE
FUCHS PETROLUB : Federal Court Finds Patents Indirectly Infringed By Supplier | On 17 March 2020, the Federal Court of Australia in Quaker Chemical (Australasia) Pty Ltd v Fuchs Lubricants (Australasia) Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] FCA 306, decided that a company had indirectly infringed two patents by supplying its customers... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | New Data on Sextortion: 124 Additional Public Cases | Content warning: This post contains content that may be upsetting for some readers. Additional warnings are located throughout the document to signal the introduction of disturbing content. Resources for those affected by sextortion are lin... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | Decision reached in Hells Angels' legal tussle with e-store Redbubble | The Australian wing of infamous outlaw motorcycle gang the Hells Angels will receive “nominal” damages of just $5000 from craft and t-shirt online marketplace Redbubble after the Queensland arm of the global brand lost the bulk of an intell... |
| Oct 25, 2018 | Last Chance To Opt Out Of #MyHealthRecord, Australians! | Australia’s controversial and clumsy rollout of its “My Health Record” program this summer didn’t cause the “spill” — what Australians call an abrupt turnover of party leadership in Parliament ? that gave the country a new Prime Minister in... |
| Jul 31, 2018 | Meriton fined $3 million for turning TripAdvisor into TripDeceiver | Serviced apartment operator Meriton Property Services Pty Ltd has been fined $3 million by the Federal Court after being found to have deliberately altered email addresses to reduce the likelihood of bad reviews for its serviced apartments ... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | ATO urged to reconsider “harsh and unfair” decision against truck driver that stripped him of all his superannuation savings | The deputy president of Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has urged the tax office to reconsider a “harsh and unfair” decision made in 2013 to penalise a retired postal truck driver over $200,000 – all of his superannuation ... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Heavy penalties on the table for banks caught lying and taking fees for no service | Protesters rally outside the Commonwealth Law Courts Building in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, April 16, 2018. Source: AAP/Luis Ascui
By Dimity Kingsford Smith and Alex Steel, UNSW
Another week of hearings of the Financial Services Royal Co... |
| Mar 16, 2018 | The Financial Services Royal Commission highlights the vulnerability of many older Australians | By Eileen Webb, Curtin University
One worrying takeaway from the first week of the Financial Services Royal Commission is how many elderly people are being adversely affected by irresponsible lending.
Such lending is often the result of an ... |
| Sep 29, 2017 | Why Australia needs new insolvency laws for small businesses | By Kevin B Sobel-Read and Madeleine MacKenzie, University of Newcastle
The Ten Network’s recent experience of voluntary administration and subsequent rescue by CBS demonstrates how insolvency law works for large Australian companies.
But 97... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Australian Gov't Accessed Domestic Metadata Thousands Of Times, Shared Some Of It With China | The Australian government has released its latest report [PDF] on its domestic metadata collection efforts and it has a bit of surprising news in it. Josh Taylor and Paul Farrell of Buzzfeed report the Australian government isn’t keeping al... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Qld govt ordered to pay $17m back to Telstra | The Queensland government has been forced to pay $17.3 million back to Telstra in rental overpayments after a judge found parts of the state's legislation invalid.
Telstra and the Queensland government have been engaged in a battle over ren... |
| Jun 9, 2017 | CSIRO reports shed light on what’s holding up the blockchain | By Philippa Ryan, University of Technology Sydney
It’s not technology or regulation holding back the blockchain — software that stores and transfers value or data across the internet — we just haven’t figured out the next big use-case. Two ... |
| May 26, 2017 | Five reasons investors shouldn’t swear off IPOs | By Mark Humphery-Jenner, UNSW
With the recent share price woes of law firms Slater & Gordon and Shine, as well as the collapse of Dick Smith, investors have become wary of initial public offerings.
But listing shouldn’t be getting such ... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | Toll to inspect USBs it suspects aided data theft | Freight giant Toll has been given permission to access and inspect eight USB devices it thinks might have been used by an ex-employee to pinch sensitive corporate files.
Earlier this month Toll applied for preliminary discovery of USB devic... |
| Apr 18, 2017 | Don't treat home internet as a fringe benefit: Telstra | The federal government should no longer consider home internet services a fringe benefit given the large number of Australians that now work from home, according to Telstra.
The telco called on the government in the lead up to its May budge... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Comcare hit with $23k privacy fine over FOI bungle | Government workplace compensation authority Comcare has been ordered to pay a former Defence worker $23,000 after it failed to redact her personal information from a document published under FOI laws.
Comcare published the report, which out... |
| Mar 13, 2017 | Ex-Spotless CIO's $477,000 payout upheld | Facilities giant Spotless will be forced to pay its former CIO Anthony Stevens more than $477,000 after losing its final bid to overturn the payout in the country’s highest court.
Stevens left the company in October 2012 following a restruc... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | What’s behind the rise in shareholder class actions? | By Mark Humphery-Jenner, UNSW; Suman Banerjee, and Vikram Nanda, University of Texas at Dallas
There’s been several high profile class actions launched by unhappy shareholders against the companies they invest in (otherwise known as securit... |
| Feb 8, 2017 | Credit agency Veda ordered to pay business owner $15,000 after accidentally recording a $7000 debt on the wrong file | Businesses operators are being reminded to check their credit scores and be aware that mistakes can be made about their information by third parties, after a business owner had his credit frozen due to an error made by credit reporting agen... |
| Jan 23, 2017 | Explainer: what rights do workers have to getting paid in the gig economy? | The gig economy is offering Australians jobs, but it comes at a cost. These are often temporary positions, where workers are independent and have to take on more risks.
In our series Working Well in the Gig Economy, The Conversation asks ex... |
| Dec 21, 2016 | Winery Loses Trademark Suit Against Other Winery Over The Term 'Signature' | I’m going to keep ringing the warning bell about how the explosive growth in the beer and wine businesses has resulted in a similar explosion in trademark disputes until people start listening. An industry that has benefited from so much in... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | Why site-blocking is not the solution to illegal downloading despite the Federal Court’s ruling | The Australian Federal Court ruled [on Thursday] that TPG, Optus, Telstra and other internet service providers (ISPs) must take “reasonable steps” to stop customers accessing file-sharing websites The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, TorrentHound and T... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure | By Marina Nehme, UNSW Australia
The vast majority of Australian companies are privately held. There are many advantages for this. Private companies face fewer regulations and lower requirements than public companies when it comes to reporti... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Allphones falls at first hurdle in Optus fee fight | Former Optus reseller Allphones has fallen at its first attempt to get compensation from the telco for miscalculation of commissions throughout the pair's long-running partnership.
Allphones was an authorised Optus dealer until August 2013 ... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Should brain stimulation headsets for gaming be regulated under medical device laws? | Gamers are increasingly turning to brain stimulation devices to enhance their performance.
Using small, gentle electrical currents sent between two or more electrodes placed on a person’s head, these transcranial direct current stimulation ... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | Brain stimulation is getting popular with gamers – is it time to regulate it? | |
| Oct 11, 2016 | New laws on bankers behaving badly don’t matter in light of ASIC inaction | By Andrew Schmulow, University of Western Australia
The government’s new laws to tackle manipulation of the bank bill swap rate may seem like a crackdown on badly behaving bank employees but in reality the Australian Securities and Investme... |
| Oct 10, 2016 | What the new drone rules mean for you | By Brendan Gogarty
Drone footage is everywhere, whether used to film extreme sports, outdoor events, nature, music festivals, or just for its own sake.
Recreational aircraft such as quadcopters, fixed-wing and mini drones are getting ever c... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | New rules will mean more drones in the sky – and that has implications for privacy | By Brendan Gogarty, University of Tasmania
Drone footage is everywhere, whether used to film extreme sports, outdoor events, nature, music festivals, or just for its own sake.
Recreational aircraft such as quadcopters, fixed-wing and mini d... |
| Aug 18, 2016 | Can photos on social media lead to mistaken identity in court cases? | |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Meet South Australia's Teenage Shipwreck Hunter | The first time Europeans sailed into South Australian waters was 1627 when the Golden Seahorse, a Dutch East India Company vessel, accidentally wound up too far south and ended up mapping the southern Australian coast. It would be another 1... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Pokémon Go puts pressure on when technology meets the law | By Michael Douglas
There are two PokéStops and a Gym within range of my desk at work.
Pokémon Go presents a real threat to my productivity. Apparently, it also presents a threat to justice in Australia.
Last Monday, the New South Wales Depa... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Why workers are taking on more risk in the sharing economy | Rideshare drivers say it has become more difficult to work on one platform.
By Sarah Kain and Emmanuel Josserand
To secure work in the gig economy, workers often have to contribute not just their time and labour but also their capital.
This... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Why it's OK That Lots of Australians Won't Vote on Saturday | Photo by Flickr user Simon Yeo.
Australia is one of 10 political entities around the world that enforces mandatory voting laws, which means anyone enrolled to vote on who doesn't turn up to a polling station on July 2 for the Federal Electi... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Studios & ISPs Clash Over Aussie Pirate Bay Blockade | After new legislation was passed last year, the first site-blocking cases were filed in Federal Court during the early part of 2016.
Two major industry players are putting the legislation to the test, with Roadshow Films (the movie division... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | What defines an 'online location' in Australian piracy site blocking? | Australia’s first test-case of legislation that enables rights holders to block access to overseas piracy websites at the ISP level is wrestling to define what constitutes an “online location”.
Rights holders and Australia’s biggest telcos ... |
| Jun 22, 2016 | Guy In Australia Pleads Guilty To Criminal Trolling On Facebook, Faces 3 Years In Jail | Let’s start off with this: there’s no legitimate way to defend Zane Alchin, a guy in Australia who appears to be an all around horrible person. He went on Facebook, and after seeing a friend of his post (and mock) a woman’s Tinder profile, ... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Why reducing bankruptcy to 12 months ignores the realities of insolvency | By Jennifer Dickfos, Griffith University and Catherine Brown, Griffith University
The proposed federal government changes to insolvency that reduce the bankruptcy period from three years to 12 months need to be questioned.
It has been argue... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | Is a quota the key to getting Netflix to spend more on Australian content? | By Marc C-Scott
The European Commission has released a proposal that will require video streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon and Apple to meet at least a 20% quota of locally produced (ie European) works.
This is part of a push to ... |
| May 11, 2016 | Federal Court orders Perth entrepreneur Vlado Bosanac to pay the ATO $9.34 million in outstanding tax liabilities | The Federal Court has ordered a Perth entrepreneur to pay the Australian Taxation Office millions of dollars in outstanding tax liabilities.
Vlado Bosanac, the executive director of Greenday Corporate and co-founder of the My Fiziq app, has... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | Australian Regulator: Banks Didn't Collude Over Bitcoin Account Closures | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has concluded that Australian banks did not collude in blocking services for bitcoin firms and that a full investigation into the affair is not necessary.
According to the Australian... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | ATO catches salesman who tried to claim “disgraceful” work-related expenses, including secretarial services performed by his 7-year-old son and cheese in a can | A Sydney man will have to pay a hefty penalty after the Australian Taxation Office discovered he was falsely claiming thousands of dollars on work-related expenses for items such as 39 packets of Monte Carlo biscuits and cheese in a can.
Ga... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | “Pommiebasher” can’t be registered as a business name because it is offensive, tribunal says | “Pommiebasher” cannot be registered as a business name because it is likely to cause offense to the public, according to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
A sports journalist named Peter Hanlon attempted to register the business name wit... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Turnbull government’s equity crowdfunding reforms “lazy” and “lack understanding”, says VentureCrowd’s Tim Heasley | The federal government’s approach to equity crowdfunding has been labelled as “absolute nonsense” and “lazy” by the founder of Australia’s first platform to offer the service.
It comes as the opposition says it hasn’t been consulted on the ... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Australian court holds Google is responsible for linking to defamatory websites | The South Australian Supreme Court this week found that Google is legally responsible when its search results link to defamatory content on the web.
In this long-running case, Dr Janice Duffy has been trying for more than six years to clear... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | It pays for franchisees to do due diligence – here’s how | We love the brand and we are willing to invest our life savings in it. After all, this is a well known franchise with hundreds of stores so it must be good. The franchisor says it is offering a proven business. It has given us a disclosure ... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | DBC opts against appeal in iiNet piracy ruling | The owner of the Dallas Buyers Club film has decided not to appeal a recent ruling in its ongoing piracy fight with a number of Australian ISPs, and will instead rework how it plans to calculate damages from alleged infringers.
Dallas Buyer... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | Judge blocks Voltage Pictures from sending “dead cats” to Dallas Buyers Club downloaders | In a spectacular setback for Voltage Pictures and Dallas Buyers Club LLC, Justice Nye Perram today denied them permission to send letters to people they were accusing of having downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club illegaly.
At a previous... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | Judge smacks down DBC's pirate letter | iiNet and a number of internet service providers will be saved from handing over details of alleged pirates for now after a federal court judge rejected Dallas Buyers Club LLC's proposed method of calculating damages for alleged infringers.... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | Australian Court Rejects Dallas Buyers Club Copyright Trolling Demands | As we’ve been discussing over the past few months, Voltage Pictures took its global copyright trolling efforts down under not too long ago, seeking to shakedown lots of Australians for allegedly downloading infringing copies of Dallas Buyer... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | Around the world, regulators are realising Bitcoin is money | The tax treatment of digital currencies is a challenge for governments around the world, as it is for other aspects of the “disruptive” digital economy.
In October 2014, the Commonwealth Senate Economics Committee launched an inquiry into d... |
| Jul 16, 2015 | The doctor, the Lamborghini and the Tax Commissioner | What constitutes the carrying on of a business for tax purposes is an age-old issue that has important consequences. If a business is carried on, tax deductions and credits can be claimed, input tax credits for GST can be claimed, and other... |