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Build-to-Rent holds the key to Australia's future liveability
New research from Allens and Urbis, the Build-to-Rent: Key to unlocking the future liveability of Australia's cities report, has found that Build-to-Rent ( BTR ) may be the quickest solution to ...
PNG's ownership of minerals and hydrocarbons
The Papua New Guinea Constitution will be amended to reflect the states ownership of hydrocarbons and minerals under proposals to be put before the PNG Parliament Partner Vaughan Mills and Senior Associate Sarah Kuman report on the implications of these amendments ...
Rural leasehold in Queensland now more attractive for investors
New legislation in Queensland that implements a range of reforms for leasehold land has been passed and will commence on a day to be fixed by proclamation The reforms will provide greater security of tenure for rural leaseholders and are likely to make such leases more attractive to investors ...
Australian landholder duty: avoid the pitfalls of an ever expanding duty base
An increased focus on taxing indirect real property transfers has seen the 'land-rich' or 'landholder' duty rules expand significantly over the years, resulting in far more transactions being liable to duty. ...
Public authorities - reduced protection against negligence
In coming to a recent decision the Queensland Supreme Court has taken a narrow view of a section of that states civil liability legislation that was designed to limit the liability of public authorities in Queensland Partner Nicholas Ng and Senior Associate Goran Gelic report on this decision and ...
Stamp duty and land tax developments - Victoria and Northern Territory
Victoria is proposing to limit its off-the-plan duty concession; extend the scope of its sub-sale duty provisions; and introduce a vacant residential property tax ...
Land tax recovery - no, yes, no again
The Queensland Government is proposing legislation that will restore a prohibition on landlords requiring tenants to pay land tax under commercial leases entered into after 1 January 1992 and before 30 June 2009 This essentially negates the effect of a Supreme Court decision that land tax from 30 ...
The Public-Private Partnership Law Review
After a busy 2016 with new projects coming to market and others transitioning from development into operations phase strong market activity is continuing this year although there is some uncertainty as to the project pipeline in some states ...
Banks set to grin and BEAR new measures to improve individual accountability
As part of its ongoing efforts to improve the domestic banking sectors accountability the Federal Government recently announced a series of measures to join the ongoing global push seeking to improve measures for individual accountability for misconduct The proposed Banking Executives Accountability ...
Victorian Government proposes reforms to reserve domestic gas production
The Victorian Government has today proposed significant gas market reforms primarily involving the introduction of a cap on the export of gas from Victoria in order to facilitate the reservation of domestic gas production for domestic supply The proposed reforms are aimed at reducing domestic gas ...