Legal

Australia's Franchising Code of Conduct has regulated the relationship between franchisors and franchisees since 1993, sitting beneath the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Businesses that reuse their own template agreements now face penalties running to tens of millions of dollars for a single unfair term, which the law treats as unlawful rather than merely unenforceable.

Brazil's federal police have formally accused 16 current and former Voepass employees, the airline's owner among them, over the ATR 72-500 crash that killed all 62 people on board.

Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his January 2025 order, Trump has signed new directives telling four US agencies to withhold passports, Social Security numbers and citizenship documents from babies born to parents who are unlawfully or only temporarily present.

Audit reports were signed. Opinions were clean. And, on ASIC's account, the work behind those opinions either fell well short of professional standards or, in at least one year, left no trace in the files at all.

The numbers from Roebourne tell the story cleanly. More than 100 Yindjibarndi people gathered and voted as one: reject the $150.3 million, instruct the lawyers, go back to court. The Federal Court's compensation order, handed down on 1 July 2026, did not survive a community meeting.

A charge sheet placing a sitting federal MP and the Crown's representative in the Northern Territory at the same public event, the same alleged incident, and the same Darwin courtroom date is not something Territory politics produces often.

1,820 former Qantas ground handlers, outsourced out of work in 2020, have still not received a cent of the $120 million compensation fund agreed in December 2024.