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Senate calls for rewards and increased protections for whistleblowers
A broadened definition of whistleblower reforms to establish greater protections for whistleblowers and increased sanctions for retaliatory conduct are some of the recommendations by a Senate committee looking into whistleblower protections in the corporate public and not-for-profit sector We expect ...
National Energy Guarantee
The Energy Security Board recently released a report summarising the results of its modelling of the Federal Governments new energy policy the National Energy Guarantee The Energy Security Boards report was considered by the COAG Energy Council at its meeting on 24 November 2017 and gives an insight ...
Christmas comes early for the AFP and CDPP: Bill introduced to reform foreign bribery laws and introduce DPA scheme
The Australian Government has introduced the Crimes Legislation Amendment Combatting Corporate Crime Bill 2017 into the Senate which if passed into law will significantly strengthen Australias foreign bribery laws and introduce a Deferred Prosecution Agreement scheme for resolving corporate criminal ...
Significant overhaul of measures to combat corporate crime
Today the Federal Government will introduce legislation that will significantly overhaul Australias foreign bribery laws and will also establish a deferred prosecution regime that is intended to provide an incentive for companies to self-report a range of serious white-collar crime matters The ...
Exposure Draft to implement tax integrity package for stapled structures released
Treasury has released the first of several tranches of exposure draft legislation to implement the Federal Governments tax integrity package for stapled structures and broader tax concessions currently available to certain foreign investors The draft legislation sets out the requirements that ...
New reporting requirements for critical infrastructure
New reporting requirements for critical infrastructure require the lodgement of information on the Register of Critical Infrastructure Assets before 11 January 2019 ...
A new framework for transmission network connections
The amendments to the National Electricity Rules will provide a new framework for transmission network connections. ...
Environment Protection Amendment Bill 2018 becomes law, in a root and branch overhaul of Victoria's environmental law
The Environment Protection Amendment Act 2018 has passed the Victorian Parliament The Act is an ambitious overhaul of Victorian environmental law and plants the seeds for a robust new environmental regime ...
Queensland's coal and CSG overlapping tenure regime getting a makeover
The Queensland Government has released proposed changes to the legislative framework for regulating overlapping coal and coal seam gas tenure which has been a vexed issue since the emergence of the coal seam gas industry in Queensland The changes principally reflect the industry proposal in the ...
National Partnership Agreement on Asset Recycling
The National Partnership Agreement on Asset Recycling between the Commonwealth and each of the states and territories firmly entrenches asset recycling for the next five years at least In last nights Budget the Federal Budget announced 5 billion will be made available to fund payments to the states ...