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The Full Bench of Fair Work Australia (FWA) has overturned the decision which held that a dispute resolution term in an enterprise agreement must allow for disputes to be settled by arbitration, whether the parties want to or not.

The Mines and Energy Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (Bill) (introduced into the Queensland Parliament on 7 October 2008) proposes to amend the Mineral Resources Act 1989 (Qld) (MRA) to introduce a public interest test for the approval processes for the grant, renewal and variation of, and determination of conditions for, mining tenements in Queensland.

In 2001 Australia introduced the world's first mandatory renewable energy scheme, under which new renewable energy generators earned a credit for each megawatt-hour of renewable energy created.

Amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 have just been passed by the Federal Parliament, allowing reporting obligations to be transferred to an entity with financial control over a facility.

New South Wales has just significantly tightened its regulation of contaminated land, so if you currently own, occupy, or have impacts on land which could potentially be contaminated, or you ever have done in the past, or are proposing to do so in future, you will need to review your obligations and exposure to investigate or clean up the land.

Yesterday the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) issued a media release which seeks to clarify the types of high-quality liquid assets that Australian ADIs will be able to count towards their Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) under APRA's implementation of Basel III's new global liquidity standards.

It is currently unclear whether the new NSW requirements will impose additional burdens on mortgagees.

Could a cheaper and quicker form of public inquiry be established at the Federal level? Quite possibly, if the ALRC's recommendations are accepted, as Philip Harrison explains.

The recent sale of the Adelaide to Darwin railway project is a good example of commercial drivers and risk allocation on a PPP deal working as originally intended.

On 11 December 2008 a Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia dismissed an application by Mr Fisse seeking review of the AAT's decision to exempt the release of certain documents pursuant to sections 34(1)(a) and 36 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

. . . copyright does not automatically exist in a medical records such as prescriptions, health summaries, referral letters and consultation notes. She determined that the existence of copyright in a medical record must be determined on a case-by-case basis.

The reform of Queensland's Freedom of Information regime has further progressed with the introduction of the Right to Information Bill and the Information Privacy Bill into the Queensland Parliament on 19 May 2009.

A finding of contributory negligence still turns on a factual investigation of whether the plaintiff contributed to his or her own loss.

Proposed changes to NSW's class actions laws could see it leap-frog the Federal and Victorian court systems to become the most popular forum for class actions in Australia.

On 21 November 2008, the Australian Government announced a review of the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth), an essential and welcome step in improving its operation and promoting Australia as a place for international arbitration.

This case concerns an attempt to enforce a Texas default judgment against an Australian company.

In these proceedings, an Italian bottle manufacturer appealed a decision by the SA District Court to stay proceedings .