Insight
MYEFO 2024-25: Budget - Financial storm clouds on the horizon as forecast deficits from new social policies take their toll
The MYEFO just released by the Treasurer shows that an end to the surpluses the Government has enjoyed over the last two year is fast approaching, with slowing revenues and the promise of new policies such as the Build to Rent tax incentives announced in the last Budget beginning to bite.
19 December 2024
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Cultivating Success: 'Land of Plenty' Report Champions Australia’s Potential as a Food Superpower
The Australian Food and Agricultural Taskforce (AFAT) has released a position paper, “Land of Plenty – Transforming Australia into a food superpower” (the Position Paper), which highlights that ‘there is a clear opportunity for Australia to become a food superpower and build a second engine of economic growth that mirrors the resources sector’.
19 December 2024
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Keeping it confidential: Navigating non-publication or suppression orders in employment disputes
Employment disputes commonly have confidential or sensitive information front and centre of the matters in issue. Information such as personal details, medical conditions, disciplinary records, family circumstances, commercially sensitive information and workplace dynamics including harassment, bullying or discrimination, or scandalous material seemingly deployed for the purpose of damaging individual reputations – to highlight a few.
19 December 2024
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My counterpart is insolvent but potentially has insurance. Can I access it?
In this article, we consider what recourse is available to access insurance held by insolvent counterparties to satisfy any claims for unmet liabilities of the insolvent party, including how to find out, in the first place, whether there is a policy that could respond to potential liabilities and how the proceeds of that policy can be segregated from other unsecured creditors.
18 December 2024
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Impending tax disclosure obligations for large private groups
The Australian Parliament passed two tranches of legislation in late November resulting in significant disclosure obligations on large private groups.
18 December 2024
