Retail giant ALDI has failed in a legal bid against what it called a “crass and callous” misrepresentation of its practices by the Transport Workers Union. The TWU had called out the retailer in an ad campaign describing the retailer as pushing truck drivers to drive long hours, operate trucks they felt weren’t maintained to […]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have announced they will not appeal the Federal Court’s decision to allow a proposed merger between TPG Telecom and Vodafone Hutchison Australia to proceed. C&I reported the court had granted approval for the deal last month, which would see the companies join forces to become one fully-integrated telecommunications company;
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Multinational energy company Equinor has abandoned plans to start drilling near the Great Australian Bight, citing the operation would not be “commercially competitive”. Equinor had earmarked an area south of South Australia’s Nullabor coastline, near the West Australian border, in the Ceduna sub-basin to drill for oil . The Norwegian company were granted the second
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An environmental group is set to challenge Equinor’s approval to drill for oil in the Great Australian bite. The Wilderness Society SA are launching a challenge of NOPSEMA’s (National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority) approval of the plans in the Federal Court. NOPSEMA had conditionally approved the Norwegian company’s plans for ultra-deepwater Stromlo-1
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The Federal Court has ordered three online e-cigarette retailers to pay penalties for breaching the Australian Consumer Law (ACL).
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