ASIC has alleged governance failures and misleading conduct against the responsible entity of an ESG-marketed registered managed investment scheme. On 2 October 2025, it commenced civil penalty procee ...

Australia’s newly announced 2035 emissions reduction target, set at 62–70% below 2005 levels, marks a defining moment in the nation’s climate policy evolution. Backed by the release ...

The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk. ...

Last week, a draft bill proposing major amendments to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) was tabled in NSW Parliament.  While much of the planning reform this year ...

This was the first National Electricity Market (NEM)-wide dispatchable generation tender under the CIS, and attracted significant interest across the energy sector. The Joel Joel and Little River ...

Allens advised the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) – the sole funder on the  transaction – which involved the acquisition of a 49% shareholding previously held by I-MED Radiology. Jones ...

The acquisition will enable Xplor Technologies' processing platform, Xplor Pay, to provide a premium subscription management offering to its existing customers, enabling them to more easily enter t ...

A 50/50 joint venture between Pacific Equity Partners and Brookfield Asset Management, Intellihub provides smart metering devices and services to more than 50 energy retailers. Allens advised the ...

In our latest update, we examine the progress of new and existing rule change requests to the AEMC in the month of August and take a closer look at the AER's final decision on its review of the Network Exemptions Guideline and the Retail Exempt Selling Guideline. ...

A key focus area set out in the recent NEM Wholesale Market Setting Review Draft Report (Market Settings Review) is to improve electricity derivative market liquidity as a 'pre-emptive' measure to mai ...