The Australian suburban landscape is dotted with homes, schools and other buildings made from asbestos cement sheeting. Most Australians have more than a passing contact with `fibro¿ and a sentimental fondness for its ...

Policy objectives at the Commonwealth level call for unified and uniform disclosure as part of the law applying to managed investment schemes. Serviced strata schemes are a type of managed investment scheme and are therefore ...

At issue before the Full Federal Court in Lawrence v FCT was the scope of the operation of s 177E(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth), dealing with schemes by way of or in the nature of dividend stripping, or ...

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Recent cases involving in-house and external lawyers have attracted much media attention, from the C7litigation to the AWB Inquiry. Some of the media commentary and judicial remarks were directed at the role of the internal ...

The three clear functions that the Commonwealth Ombudsman has currently reflecting a change in emphasis towards what may be broadly termed the quality control of government administration are discussed. The need is for ...