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Corruption and Integrity Update April 2025
In this edition of the Queensland Corruption and Integrity Update we consider various updates related to the Crime and Corruption...
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Owners Corporation update: Recent VCAT decision highlights the need for further legislative change
Owners Corporation PS738539K v Ka-Po was heard by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT or the Tribunal) where the...
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Heading to the polls: Workplace relations policies in the 2025 Federal Election
Australians will be heading to the polls on Saturday, 3 May 2025. As campaigning gains momentum, we are seeing more...
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Learnings from recent ‘same job, same pay’ cases decided by the Fair Work Commission
In this article, we discuss two recent cases where the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has made or considered making ‘regulated...
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Deductions on termination of employment – Are they lawful?
In the recent decision of Bateup v Mornington Shire Council [2025] QIRC 61, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) ordered...
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ACCC v Hutchinson: understanding an “understanding”
Gadens acted for Hutchinson Builders (Hutchinson) in a recent High Court case,[1] in which the ACCC unsuccessfully sought to overturn...
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Key Takeaways: VPELA Planning Minster’s Address
Earlier this week, the Gadens Planning & Environment Team attended VPELA’s annual Planning Minister’s Address in Melbourne. Before a packed...
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National Integrity Spotlight – April 2025
In the first quarterly edition of the National Integrity Spotlight for 2025, we consider the latest update to the Corruptions...
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New guidance for employers on sexual and gender-based harassment in the workplace
On 5 March 2025, the Federal Government approved the Work Health and Safety (Sexual and Gender-based Harassment) Code of Practice...
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Corruption and Integrity Update March 2025
In this edition of the Queensland Corruption and Integrity Update we consider updates arising from the operations and oversight of...
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Restricting the restraints: The government’s latest proposal
The Federal Government’s budget announcement on Tuesday included a significant workplace proposal to ban post-employment non-competition restrictions for some employees....
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ASIC succeeds in its third civil penalty prosecution for greenwashing, with the Federal Court imposing a $10.5 million penalty
Court findings On 18 March 2025, his Honour Justice O’Callaghan imposed a civil penalty of $10.5 million on the trustee...
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