The Australian regulatory landscape for foreign financial service providers (FFSPs) has been the subject of future uncertainty for some time. Currently, many FFSPs from sufficiently equivalent ...

What's changed: The original Bill required that actions be "not inconsistent" with the national environmental standards. The ...

It has been over a year since HWL Ebsworth (HWLE), an Australian law firm, sought and obtained urgent interim and final injunctive relief against anonymous foreign hackers following a high-profile ...

The PRIS laws apply to 'contracted service providers'. A contracted service provider is a party to a State services contract that provide services to or on behalf of a public entity, or a ...

Justice Smith refused Stability AI's application for reverse summary judgment on the basis that there was, to the mind of the ...

With an increased focus on psychosocial hazards, the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 commenced on 22 August 2025, replacing the 2017 Regulation. While the new instrument largely preserves the ...

COP30 wrapped up with a mixed bag of outcomes, leaving no constituency satisfied with the final result: While some progress was made on the Just Transition and Adaptation Finance, there was a ...

The recent decision in Newmont Canada FN Holdings ULC v Commissioner of Taxation (No 2) [2025] FCA 1356 represents a pivotal development in the valuation of mining projects for tax purposes, ...

ASIC's enforcement action against SQM – the first against a research provider – highlights that research houses or providers must have adequate processes in place to carry out diligence and ...