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Oracle Full Federal Court decision confirms refusal of stay not warranted
On Tuesday 21 October 2025, the Full Federal Court in Oracle Corporation Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2025] FCAFC 145 (the Appeal Decision) allowed an appeal against the Federal Court ...
One cyber incident, many breaches: first civil penalty under the Privacy Act
The Federal Court has approved Australian Clinical Labs' settlement agreement with the Australian Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) to pay a $5.8 million penalty, and a contribution of $400, ...
How to manage cyber risk in 2026
Australian cyber risk management regimes are high-level and principles-based, offering flexibility but leaving organisations exposed if their capabilities and cybersecurity posture isn’t genuine ...
Government consults on expanding Australian financial services law to digital assets
After a long period of discussion about potential digital asset reform, the Treasury has released draft legislation—the Treasury Laws Amendment (Regulating Digital Asset, and Tokenised Custody, ...
Allens advises Energy Bay on $215m syndicated corporate debt financing
Energy Bay is one of Australia’s leading full-service embedded network platforms, providing specialised behind-the-meter distributed energy infrastructure solutions to tier 1 landlords across ...
PNG resources sector reforms: National Petroleum Authority established under new legislation
The Papua New Guinea Government has announced a new seven-member board of the National Petroleum Authority, marking the next step in the country’s resources sector reform. This follows the comme ...
AI agents: redefining outsourcing
The premise of outsourcing is simple: organisations reduce their costs by leveraging a third party to perform labour-intensive work in a more efficient manner and with a lower cost base. However, the ...
The Cyber Brief: communicating through a cyber incident
Valeska and co-host Chris Kerrigan are joined by Meredith Griffanti, Senior Managing Director in Strategic Communications and Global Head of Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications at FTI Cons ...
Mandatory climate-related financial reporting is here: guidance for reporting entities
On 12 January 2024, the Federal Government released the exposure draft of the Treasury Laws Amendment Bill: Climate-related financial disclosure. In this Insight, we explain key elements of the Draft Legislation, including areas of uncertainty that have been raised in submissions to government. ...