A national telecommunications company has paid a $259,440 penalty after failing to comply with customer identification rules and causing customers to fall victim to scams.
Westgold Resources has revealed it is being prosecuted over a mine site fatality after Byrnecut, Northern Star Resources and Billabong Gold were fined more than $2 million.
Western Power has been fined $80,000 after pleading guilty to failing to ensure network safety, after confessing it was aware of the issue that caused the Wheatbelt bushfire.
An Albany real estate agent has been fined after telling a homeowner she could live in a mud brick dwelling deemed uninhabitable by the local government authorities.
Billabong Gold- owned by Catalyst Metals backed by Gina Rinehart- has been fined half a million dollars over two workplace injuries at a mine in the Mid West.
The Federal Court has fined a Perth woman $230,000 after she provided unsubstantiated tax agent services despite not being registered as a practitioner.
Former Continental Coal director Peter Landau has been sentenced to more than five years in prison over several charges, including stealing as a director.
Telstra will refund wrongfully billed customers a total of $21 million by the end of year and a $3 million penalty for breaching the relevant consumer code.
Australia’s biggest telecommunications provider has been fined more than $300,000 for repeated safety and privacy failures over customers' emergency information.
The federal government has tabled more than 80 amendments to a contentious workplace relations Bill with some changes catching business groups by surprise.
The disciplinary tribunal for chartered accountants has imposed the maximum possible fine on PwC and applied new reporting requirements as fallout from the tax advice scandal continues.
WA's apartment sector has become embroiled in an aggressive campaign led by consumer advocate Samantha Reece as she has ramped up her drive for mandatory construction inspections.
Major employer groups are divided over contentious workplace relations reforms after federal minister Tony Burke negotiated amendments to exclude service contractors.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched an investigation into Perth builder Nicheliving Real Estate, which claims not to be the subject of an open matter.
Sandfire Resources has been fined half a million dollars over a rock fall incident that left one of its operators “lucky to be alive” at the DeGrussa underground copper mine.
One of the five people exposed to a caustic chemical spill at Alcoa’s Pinjarra refinery has been released from hospital, while three workers were back on site today.
