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Thinking| 10 Jul 2019
On 19 June 2019, the High Court delivered its judgment in one of the most hotly anticipated insolvency judgments this year, the Amerind appeal: Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth.1 The High Court unanimously dismissed the appeal, upholding ...
Thinking| 04 Feb 2019
The Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR), established on 30 January 2012, has celebrated its seventh birthday. The PPSR is a comprehensive national register of all security interests in personal property in Australia. While birthdays are a time for celebration, this seventh birthday ...
Thinking| 27 Nov 2018
The largest 100 aged care service providers in Australia will have very recently received initial correspondence from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (Commission) inviting early submissions. The Commission’s letter is the first significant step in advance ...
Thinking| 31 Oct 2018
Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne’s interim report contains no specific recommendations, and no draft recommendations, but rather postulates two main questions for further consideration: Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent the conduct happening again? This long, ...
Thinking| 20 Sep 2018
The first part of the ABC’s Four Corners five-month special investigation into the aged care sector made for confronting viewing. The day before the Four Corners report was aired, and no doubt in anticipation of the public reaction to ...