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Plan Melbourne: refresh of Victoria's metropolitan planning strategy
Insight 16 Nov 2015

Housing affordability climate change and energy efficiency are key focuses of the discussion paper recently released by the Victorian Planning Minster which aims to refresh the current Melbourne Metropolitan Planning strategy Plan Melbourne The paper draws upon the detailed report prepared by the ...

Government launches innovation agenda - now wait for the ideas boom
Insight 08 Dec 2015

You might be getting tired of all of the talk about innovation and keen to see some of it actually happen The Governments recent announcements could help but there is a long way to go before the mining boom becomes the ideas boom ...

Media ownership reform back in the spotlight
Insight 08 Mar 2016

The Federal Government has introduced a narrow package of media ownership reform which if enacted will reduce the restrictions imposed by the Broadcasting Services Act on the ownership of media assets across platforms and market ...

Allens Accelerate: FAQs: Shareholders agreements
Insight 15 Jun 2016

Together with your companys constitution a shareholders agreement provides the foundation for the corporate governance of your startup and outlines what a shareholder can and cant do It also sets out the shareholders rights and obligations and their role in the management of the company ...

Spotting hurdles in the race to market Australian funds in Asia
Insight 05 Apr 2016

The introduction of the Asia Region Funds Passport ARFP has been in the works for some time The ARFP was one of the recommendations coming out of the 2009 Johnson Report and aims to provide a basis for cross-border marketing of managed funds in the Asia region While there has been a tendency to ...

Utmost good faith, life insurance and ASIC
Insight 05 Apr 2016

The judgment of Lord Mansfield in Carter v Boehm in 1766 is frequently cited as establishing the principle that parties to an insurance contract owe each other duties of utmost good faith. ...

Transparency and Accountability - and not just for Wall Street
Insight 07 Mar 2016

The regulatory law repercussions of the GFC remain endlessly fascinating As an example take the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 It runs to 848 pages Title VII addresses perhaps optimistically Wall Street Transparency and Accountability My favourite provision is section ...

Contract Law Update 2015
Insight 11 Feb 2016

Our Contract Law Update provides an overview of important contract law decisions by Australian appellate courts in the past 12 months and considers their significance for the development of Australian contract law ...

CEPA introduces new environment management fees
Insight 24 Feb 2016

Papua New Guineas Conservation and Environment Protection Authority commences implementation of its new fee structure this year Partner Vincent Bull and Senior Associate Ryan Warokra look at the changes and how they will be administered ...

Revision of Indonesia's Negative Investment List
Insight 19 Feb 2016

On 11 February 2016 the Indonesian Government released the tenth instalment of its economic stimulus programme The programme includes new regulations that seek to streamline investment and business licence procedures and weaken the hold of oligarchies and cartels that exist in certain sectors The ...

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