Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. This appeal is a continuation of an ongoing dispute between The Owners - Strata Plan No SP12299 (the Owners Corporation (OC)) and the owner of Lot 6 in SP12299, Stephen Mackay (Mr Mackay). 2. That dispute centres around a pool and a patio/sunroom area built on Mr Mackay's lot property prior to its purchase. 3. For the reasons which follow, we have decided that the matter shoul...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. These two related proceedings arise from the breakdown of a business relationship between Mrs Joy Wylie and Mr Jeffrey Williams. Mr Williams is the former son-in-law of Mrs Wylie. 2. Mrs Wylie and Mr Williams are the directors of JR Enterprises Pty Ltd, which is the trustee for the JR Enterprises Unit Trust (the Trust). 3. JR Enterprises, in its capacity as trustee of the Trus...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. These proceedings are listed for hearing before Nixon J for three weeks commencing 2 June 2025. 2. The plaintiff (the "Owners Corporation") is the owners corporation of a strata development at Olympic Park. The Owners Corporation brings these proceedings against the developer, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, and the builder, Parkview Constructions Pty Ltd ("Parkview"). 3. One c...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. By 20 summonses filed 14 June 2022 by the Secretary, Department of Planning and Environment, now known as the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water ('prosecutor'), Aerotropolis Pty Ltd ('defendant') stands charged with 20 offences against the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) ('NPW Act') and the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW) ('BC Act...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. By Interlocutory Process filed on 8 May 2025, Mr Domenic Carbone and Ms Angela Carbone sought several orders, which they initially maintained should be made on an ex parte and urgent basis. Those orders included a vacation of orders for production and examination orders that had previously been made by a Registrar and other orders including the stay of the examination orders and...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: support for Australians leaving the MiddleEast, Prime Minister G7 meetings, Treasurer's National Press Club address SallySara: Rising tension between Israel and Iran is seeing a growing number of Australians reaching out for help to leave the MiddleEast as the escalating conflict also fuels concerns about potential worldwide economic impacts. Meanwhile, in Canberra, the Treasurer is preparin...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: reform roundtable, economic reform, tax reform, economic resilience, budget sustainability, productivity, defence spending Tom Connell: Thank you, Treasurer. I'm going to keep this broad, lest I be accused of ruling in, ruling out. So, if you think of how bold you're willing to be. When we think of economic reform, the truly transformative reform is always, at the time at least, somewhat cont...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: 2025 election, productivity, progressive patriotism, global uncertainty, reform roundtable, net zero transition MarkKenny: G'day there and welcome to Democracy Sausage from the Australian National University. I'm MarkKenny director of ANU's Australian Studies Institute and I'm delighted to welcome back to Democracy Sausage federal Treasurer, JimChalmers. G'day there Jim. JimChalmers: It's n...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: Middle East conflict, economic reform and productivity agenda, budget sustainability, defence spending MichelleGrattan: Treasurer JimChalmers has declared improving Australia's dismal progress on productivity is at the top of his priorities for Labor's second term, but addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday, it was clear that his ambitions for economic reform are wide, much wider tha...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 17 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: MiddleEast conflict, Trump Administration engagement, work from home, tax reform, roundtable JimChalmers: Given the deteriorating and concerning situation in the MiddleEast, it's not surprising that President Trump has left the G7 early. It's understandable given the situation in the MiddleEast. Obviously, this was always a chance of happening given what we're seeing in the MiddleEast. This ...