Powercor Australia has been hit a class action alleging its negligence led to a fire in the Gazette area of South West Victoria, the fourth class action the electrical distribution company faces over the 2018 St Patrick’s Day fires.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and one of its officials have been fined more than $50,000 after the official targeted a group of Chevron workers with a foul-mouthed “rant” for leaving the union.
A judge has ordered mediation in the Brisbane floods class action, in which the victims of the 2011 disaster are seeking up to $1 billion in compensation.
BHP has been hit with a shareholder class action over the deadly Samarco mine disaster that wiped off $25 billion from the share price of the mining giant.
The Queensland Supreme Court has frozen more than $200 million in personal assets of mining tycoon and former MP Clive Palmer, in a case brought by the liquidators of failed Queensland Nickel.
The Full Federal Court on Friday dismissed an appeal of a ruling that barred a labour hire company from entering into an enterprise agreement with a small group of employees that covered a larger, more diverse workforce.
AGL has rejected a $250 million bid to buy its Liddell power station and will go ahead with plans to close the coal-fired plant in four years, the power company told shareholders Monday.
Boutique law firm Phi Finney McDonald is investigating a potential shareholder class action against BHP Billiton over the fatal Samarco disaster in Brazil, which saw the market value of the mining giant plummet by $25 billion.
SNF has filed an appeal with the Federal Court after the Australian Patent Office shot down its challenge to a mining patent application by rival BASF.
An environmental group fighting to protect the threatened greater glider has won a temporary injunction that bans state-owned forestry corporation VicForests from logging in select regions of the Victorian Central Highlands where the marsupial has been found.