Former Perth Glory owner Tony Sage has failed in his bid to access documents he claimed was used by the Australian Taxation Office for an audit that led to penalty assessments.
Popular ticketing platform Ticketek has been handed a $515,000 infringement notice after breaking spam laws by sending thousands of unauthorised texts and emails.
A South West electrician has been ordered to pay $11,000 after the industry watchdog found its “dangerous installation” could have caused a hydrogen explosion.
A proposed electric vehicle road user charge in WA is likely to be powered down after the High Court of Australia found a Victorian equivalent of the tax to be unconstitutional.
Perth builder Opus Homes has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in compensation to one of its customers over a building services dispute escalated to the State Administrative Tribunal.
Fletcher Building says the mass failure of plumbing pipes it manufactured are confined to the Perth market and asserted the problem lies with defective installation.
Perth businessman Dean Scook is facing charges of stealing as an officer of a company after the corporate watchdog alleged he stole more than $675,000 of funds.
The corporate watchdog has issued fines totaling more than $700,000, within six months, against companies that failed to comply with financial reporting requirements.
Meriton Group Western Australia, an entity using a name similar to real estate billionaire Harry Triguboff’s company, will be wound up in insolvency following a federal court ruling.
Collapsed residential builder Babylon Homes and Construction has been fined $23,000 after it carried out work without a permit, supervisor or home indemnity insurance.
An electrical contractor has been fined $50,000 after failing to install safety devices when upgrading switchboards at three homes occupied by miners in the Pilbara.
The financial services regulator alleges AustralianSuper charged members the same set of fees multiple times and failed to consolidate duplicate accounts.
The Federal Government has lauded its planned industrial relations changes as world-leading, but new details of the proposed reform have been slammed by leading business groups.
Western Australia’s chief justice has lambasted the quarrel over legal costs in a court dispute between Peter Hood and Tom Henderson-backed MAK Water and its former staff.
The state government’s Building and Energy department has released its findings from an investigation over pipe leaks across Perth homes, with the results welcomed by builder BGC.
A collapsed father and son building company has been hit with a $25,000 fine for carrying out unauthorised work and demanding premature payments for work on four Perth properties.
A former director of a demolition company has been convicted in court, being disqualified from acting in the management of corporations for five years.
BHP-owned Oz Minerals has agreed to pay $9.3 million in fines after self-reporting employees bribed foreign officials to obtain mining rights in Cambodia.
Australia’s financial investigations watchdog has remained tight-lipped about the decision to investigate Perth Mint during a federal hearing into its probe of the scandal-plagued organisation
Shark Bay seashell miner L’Haridon Bight Mining has been ordered to pay an increased $48,000 fine after WorkSafe successfully appealed the original sentence over a workplace injury.
Australia’s corporate regulator laid 125 criminal charges and 19 individuals have been disqualified or removed from directing companies in the first half of 2023.
WA’s resources sector has been put on notice mandates will be on the cards should the industry fail to crack down on workplace behaviour through guidelines and best practice measures introduced in the wake of a damning FIFO sexual harassment probe.
Two WA building contractors have been fined over falsifying home indemnity insurance certificates in building applications for projects in Karrinyup and Hazelmere.
