Insights for October 2025

02/10/2025 - Major Projects & Construction 5 Minute Fix No 137: construction productivity; forum shopping, and indemnity clauses 02/10/2025 - Opening access to jet fuel infrastructure to capitalise on investment in low carbon liquid fuels 02/10/2025 - Social media age restrictions: eSafety Commissioner provides regulatory guidance 02/10/2025 - Victoria's building reforms and their impact on the domestic building insurance market 02/10/2025 - Closing the hidden ownership gap: Australia's proposed reforms to derivative disclosure and tracing 02/10/2025 - Victorian employers get new requirements on psychosocial hazards 08/10/2025 - True employer status and recoveries under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee: lessons from Mosaic Brands 08/10/2025 - Radical reshape of NSW planning laws 08/10/2025 - Nature is not a free good. Southeast Asia’s investors must put a price on it 16/10/2025 - New merger regime "refinements" to cut red tape and boost deal certainty a welcome change 17/10/2025 - Payday Super is finally here. Are you ready? 17/10/2025 - From theory to enforcement: APRA’s use of FAR in the Xinja disqualifications 17/10/2025 - "Trustees cannot outsource accountability": APRA's latest warning to platform trustees 17/10/2025 - High Court confirms no royalty withholding tax and no diverted profits tax in PepsiCo 17/10/2025 - Landmark privacy penalty: What the ACL case means for data protection in Australia 17/10/2025 - A net-zero framework for international shipping: formal vote this month 17/10/2025 - Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment Report and National Adaptation Plan 17/10/2025 - AI governance, risk management, and director duties: discharging due care in the age of artificial intelligence 17/10/2025 - High Court rules that the Federal Government can retrospectively validate unconstitutional State laws 23/10/2025 - The National Higher Education Code on Gender-Based Violence is imminent: What universities must do next