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With less than 100 days to go until Victoria’s state election, the Housing Industry Association has called for the next government to reduce the tax burden on housing.
HIA argues that state property-based taxes impose a significant financial burden on Victorian homebuyers with:
Victorians paying the highest rate of
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Spring selling season is here. But if you’re considering listing your property on the market, it’s important to know what you’re legally required to disclose, especially as there have been some small – but significant – amendments to the Sale of Land Act
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It was only four years ago, in September 2018, that maximum penalties under the Australian Consumer Law were last increased from $1.1 million to $10 million.
But the new federal government wants the price of misconduct to be high enough to deter non-compliance, so it’s released a draft bill proposing
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The head of a team of United Nations torture experts speaks exclusively to the Law Report about the decision to suspend inspections of detention facilities in Australia. And, in a court or tribunal hearing, can one side use secret evidence that the other can’t see?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The head of a team of United Nations torture experts speaks exclusively to the Law Report about the decision to suspend inspections of detention facilities in Australia. And, in a court or tribunal hearing, can one side use secret evidence that the other can’t see?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The UN is urging Australian governments to offer unlimited access to UN inspectors visiting prisons and other detention facilities around the country. And Justice Jayne Jagot has been sworn in as the newest member of the High Court and for the first time a majority of the sitting judges on Australia’s highest court are
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The UN is urging Australian governments to offer unlimited access to UN inspectors visiting prisons and other detention facilities around the country. And Justice Jayne Jagot has been sworn in as the newest member of the High Court and for the first time a majority of the sitting judges on Australia’s highest court are
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
What do Australia’s leading lawyers think about the Federal Government’s plan to enshrine a First Nations’ voice to parliament in the constitution? The country’s top legal minds have been meeting to ‘pressure test’ the draft model. And how should judges be appointed?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
What do Australia’s leading lawyers think about the Federal Government’s plan to enshrine a First Nations’ voice to parliament in the constitution? The country’s top legal minds have been meeting to ‘pressure test’ the draft model. And how should judges be appointed?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Does the Federal Government’s draft legislation for a national anti-corruption commission go far enough? And retired UK Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption speaks to the Law Report about Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the US, the arrests of protesters following Queen Elizabeth’s death, judicial appointments, and Brexit.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Does the Federal Government’s draft legislation for a national anti-corruption commission go far enough? And retired UK Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption speaks to the Law Report about Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the US, the arrests of protesters following Queen Elizabeth’s death, judicial appointments, and Brexit.