COVID-19 Weekly Wrap-Up: W/E 15 May 2020

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.

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’.

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.