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    • ACCC investigates petrol price sharing
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    • All over, red rover - the loss of ‘reference dates’ following termination
    • New obligations in Queensland for body corporate committees under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011
    • Queensland Supreme Court clarifies the application of BCIPA to mining projects
    • Security of payment: decisions that impacted the construction industry in 2011
    • Traps and tips: the use of BCIPA and BCISPA during the Christmas period
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    • A family affair - the Takeovers Panel and family associations, what every company needs to know
    • AFP cracks down on foreign bribery
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    • Corporate Advisory Boards - try before you buy?
    • Executive remuneration - what you need to know this AGM season
    • Executive remuneration - window dressing or glass shattering
    • Notices of Meeting - critical timing issues for ASX and ASIC review
    • Personal Property and Securities Act to commence 30 January
    • The Centro Eight - ASIC turns up the heat on company directors and executives
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    • Flood claim denied? You may still be covered
  • Employment
    • Full bench splits on equal pay findings
    • Local businesses elated, school kids deflated - but the show must go on!
    • Not quite a quota - but reporting requirements ramp up
    • Retail Industry Award to allow short after-school shifts
    • Workplace training avoids vicarious liability for employer in sexual harassment claim
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    • Commencement date for PPSA deferred to October 2011
    • Personal Property and Securities Act to commence 30 January
    • Personal Property Securities Act 2009 update - commencement postponed
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    • Additional requirements for responsible entities offering investment to NZ residents
    • Advertising financial products and advice services - riskier than fast food and real estate but safer than cigarettes
    • AFSL requirements for carbon market participants
    • AML/CTF compliance reports due 31 March 2011
    • FOFA reforms update - a stay of execution?
    • FOFA update - the washup post-PJC and SELC
    • Future of financial advice reforms - draft legislation
    • Future of financial advice reforms - draft legislation - tranche 2
    • Future of financial advice reforms - tranche 2 bill
    • GST changes which will affect super funds and MIS
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    • New financial requirements for responsible entities - trips and traps
    • Watershed decision relating to responsible entity's power to amend constitution
    • Win for fund managers - scheme documents protected
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    • ACCC win highlights dangers of misleading food claims
    • Ban on live exports a force majeure event?
    • Branding your beef
    • Carbon farming framework established in Queensland
    • Farmers struggling after live export ban lifted
    • Federal Government carbon initiative - submissions on consultation paper by early February
    • Foreign investment - should farming land be subject to stricter control?
    • Foreign investment in Australian agriculture – Senate enquiry due to report
    • Foreign Investment into Agribusiness: an opportunity for Australia
    • Impacts from the live export ban and risks to rural communities
    • Indonesia live cattle export ban
    • Major changes to Queensland land rich duty - timing is critical
    • Senate inquiry into foreign investment in agricultural land and businesses
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    • FIRB - Senate inquiry report into foreign investment delayed
    • Foreign Investment into Agribusiness: an opportunity for Australia
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    • The Centro decision - impact on directors’ and officers’ liability insurance
  • Intellectual Property
    • Is your trade mark registration at risk?
    • Transferring of domain names made easier
    • What connotations does your trade mark have?
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    • Impact of new GST provisions on government agencies
    • Major policy decisions during the local government caretaker period
    • Reconstructing Queensland - what is value for money?
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    • Amendments proposed to Public Ancillary Funds
    • Impact of budget proposals on Not-for-Profit organisations (NFP)
    • Not-for-profits and the new securities regime
    • Tax concessions for not-for-profit organisations
    • Transition from incorporated association to public company limited by guarantee now possible in Queensland
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    • Infrastructure charges reform
    • New flood standards for the QDC - a sleeping giant for building compliance costs?
    • The Flood Commission calls for a uniform approach to planning for floods
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    • ALERT - Strategic Cropping Land: Clarity but still no middle ground
    • In commercial dealings good faith doesn’t mean ‘blind faith’
    • Strategic Cropping Land protection cropped under new mapping and guidelines
  • Property
    • Implications of recent flood disaster on contracts for the sale and purchase of real property
    • Important changes to disclosure requirements for sellers of units
    • Land Sales Act amendment - sunset date extension
    • New obligations in Queensland for body corporate committees under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011
    • Queensland to deregulate real estate commissions
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    • ASX Listing Rule changes
    • ATO ruling on farm-out arrangements - ten years in the making, worth the wait?
    • Changes proposed to the overlapping coal and coal seam gas tenure framework
    • Changes to Queensland royalty payments
    • Clarifying health and safety obligations at coal mines
    • Coronial inquest findings - fatigue affecting mine workers
    • Court ruling on carbon emissions a big win for smaller mines
    • Major changes to duty relating to Queensland mining tenements
    • Mining Codes of Practice open for public comment
    • OSR releases update on changes to duty relating to Queensland mining tenements
    • Personal Property and Securities Act to commence 30 January
    • Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) - commencement postponed
    • Providing clarity on 'authorisation' of Indigenous Land Use Agreements
    • Quarrying company fined for cultural heritage breach
    • Queensland Government to phase out mining on North Stradbroke Island
    • Recent changes in the resource landscape
    • Senate inquiry into foreign investment ‘national interest’ test
    • Senate passes MRRT for 1 July start
    • Strategic Cropping Land Bill 2011
    • Think the PPSA won’t affect your resources business? Think again
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    • The new securities regime
    • Trustees’ obligations in exercising discretion - Finch v Telstra Super Pty Ltd
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    • ALERT - Tax Forum wrap up
    • Company directors’ personal liability to be expanded
    • Increased GST under development lease arrangements for residential premises
    • Trust action plan - 2011 year end
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    • BRCA gene patents - hold the Mayo
    • Google not responsible for AdWord infringement
    • New generic Top Level Domains will change the face of the Internet
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    • After the floods - employment and safety considerations
    • Clear signal - harmonisation of rail safety laws on track for 2013
    • Despite recent rumours, NSW WHS laws to take effect from 1 January 2012
    • Employers placed on-the-spot in NSW
    • Forced redundancies back on the table
    • New obligations in Queensland for body corporate committees under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011
    • New Queensland WHS Regulations and Codes of Practice - are you ready?
    • NSW Codes of Practice - is your workplace using the right ones?
    • NSW Parliament introduces Work Health and Safety Bill: major changes to Jurisdiction
    • NSW releases WHS Regulations
    • NSW Work Health and Safety Bill passes through Parliament - the disharmony of harmonisation
    • The winds of change - 'reasonably practicable' defence succeeds
    • What's new in Work Health and Safety
    • Work Health and Safety Bill before NSW parliament tomorrow - tipped to be a major change in Jurisdiction
    • Work Health and Safety Bill before Queensland Parliament - tipped to bring major changes
    • Work Health and Safety Bill passed by Queensland Parliament
    • Work Health and Safety overhaul for Queensland - another step towards harmonisation
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  • Live export ruling welcomed but at what cost to industry?
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  • The ATO’s ruling on farm-out arrangements has been ten years in the making - has it been worth the wait?
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