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Employers cheating Australian workers by withholding super: report

About a third of the workforce is being cheated out of superannuation entitlements by unscrupulous employers, sham contracting schemes and the cash economy New...

Crown Towers Perth, Australia’s most expensive hotel, has opened to the public

The $650 million dollar Crown Towers in Perth started taking its first official guests this week. The hotel is enormous: 500 guest rooms and villas, with...

Justin Hemmes expands empire

Pub baron Justin Hemmes has just acquired the Tennyson Hotel in Sydney’s Mascot for $37 million. That’s another pub added to his growing empire which...

Sydney Chinese restaurant enters pact to protect workers following $80,000 wage underpayment

Almost $80,000 in unpaid wages and penalties has been returned to 22 workers at a Chinese seafood restaurant in Cabramatta, western Sydney. Vinh Phat...

Penalty against Whyalla cleaning operator

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a penalty against the former operator of a cleaning business at Whyalla, in regional South Australia, following the...

Penalty rates brawl in WA

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett is positioning himself in the lead-up to next year’s state election with a pledge to crack down on penalty rates...

This is not a café respite centre: Surf Café controversy

A callous café owner? Or a business man concerned about the customer’s welfare? One incident, two different versions that became public when they were...

What NOT to do - WA Health Names of Offenders List as of 1st December 2016

The table below lists the food businesses and persons (individuals or body corporates) that have been convicted of an offence under the Food Act 2008 (WA) (external...

Backpacker tax in limbo

The Senate has stymied the government’s plans to get this week’s compromised backpacker tax through Parliament. The government was put on the back...

Aristocrat Leisure profit soars 68.7 per cent

Gaming giant Aristocrat Leisure has defied analyst’s expectations with a 68.7 per cent increase in its full year profit to $398.2 million. The market...