3 Mar 2025

Starting a business? Why 'it'll be right!' is the wrong mindset

Starting a business is an exciting adventure – kind of like jumping out of a plane, except you really want to make sure you have a parachute (and maybe a backup one, too). Matthew Fisher explains.

29 Jan 2025

Top tips to future-proof your business for the new year

As the business landscape evolves, staying ahead requires proactive strategies. From employment laws to climate reporting, here are our top tips to help ensure your business thrives in 2025 and beyond.

15 July 2024

With pals like these…who needs fair contract terms?

PayPal is no friend of small business, according to the Federal Court, having included an unfair term in more than 600,000 small business contracts. A timely prompt to ensure ‘unfair’ terms are banished from standard form contracts...

10 Apr 2024

Hanging out the dirty laundry

The landscape for lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents is set to evolve with proposed changes to Australia's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism legislation. David Meegan and Irini Kourakis provide a breakdown of the proposed amendments...

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8 Apr 2024

myGov: the shortcut to Commonwealth Statutory Declarations

From 12 February 2024, any person who needs to make a Commonwealth statutory declaration can do so digitally through myGov using their “Digital Identity”, without the requirement for a prescribed person to witness the declaration...

4 Mar 2024

Streamlining the Financial Services Legislation

On 18 January 2024 the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) released a report on its review of financial services legislation titled “Confronting Complexity: Reforming Corporations and Financial Services Legislation”...

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20 Feb 2024

Obligation to ensure proper supervision of building work

Section 12(b) of the Building Work Contractors Act 1995 (SA) (the Act) provides that a licensed building work contractor must ensure that building work of any kind performed under the contractor’s licence is properly supervised....

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19 Feb 2024

Out with the old, in with the new: the introduction of the Administrative Review Tribunal

On 7 December 2023, the Federal Government introduced two bills to abolish the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and establish its replacement, the Australian Review Tribunal (ART)...

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30 Jan 2024

Embracing efficiency post-Covid: permanent changes to the execution of Commonwealth statutory declarations

On 1 January 2024, changes to the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cth) (Act) came into effect which impact the execution of Commonwealth statutory declarations (Declarations). These amendments have expanded the methods for executing...

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