Issue #6

Since 1 July 2026, employers must get superannuation into workers’ funds within seven business days of each payday, under a tougher charge and penalty regime.

Around 100,000 small firms came under anti-money laundering law on 1 July. The infringement notices began at the end of September, at A$21,840 a time.

The Albanese government has nominated the ACCC chair for another five years from March 2027, keeping a former Gilbert + Tobin competition partner in charge as the new merger regime matures.

Nearly three years after penalties for unfair contract terms took effect, regulators are testing the regime in court, with a payday lender penalised and Amazon facing an ACCC claim.

ASIC’s fourth greenwashing civil penalty is the first to rest on a responsible entity’s duty of care and diligence, putting fund governance on notice.

More than 12 per cent of cafés, restaurants and takeaway businesses have closed in a year, and the payment data published since has got worse, not better.

Lush is exiting every Westfield in the country. None of the week's exits is publicly about rent, which is the part a small tenant should think hardest about.

Victoria's new commissioner arrives from Beyond Blue by way of the Fair Work Ombudsman. The combination says something about what the role has become.

BHP’s new chief executive, a 25-year company veteran who led its Americas copper and potash growth push, took over from Mike Henry on 1 July.