Matthew Rimmer1d ago
Australia's Woodside wins dismissal of Greenpeace emissions lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/australias-woodside-wins-dismissal-greenpeace-emissions-lawsuit-2026-04-22/ #auslaw #greenwashing #consumerlaw #corporationslaw #ASICAct #auspol
Show threadMatthew Rimmer2d ago
Consumer watchdog zeroes in on Woolworths’ allegedly fake discounts as it meets supermarket giant in court
Vinegar, Tim Tams and baby rice are among the products to be scrutinised in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case
The ACCC alleges Coles and Woolworths broke Australian consumer law by offering “illusory” discounts on hundreds of everyday products through the misleading use of their respective “Down Down” and “Prices Dropped” promotion programs.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/21/consumer-watchdog-accc-supermarket-woolworths-court-hearings-australia
Led by Robert Yezerski, SC, Woolworths’ legal team is expected to vigorously defend the allegations, with the supermarket saying it “fundamentally disagrees” with the ACCC’s claims and at no stage misled or deceived customers.
#auspol #auslaw #consumerlaw #ACCC
Consumer watchdog zeroes in on Woolworths’ allegedly fake discounts as it meets supermarket giant in court

Vinegar, Tim Tams and baby rice are among the products to be scrutinised in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case

The Guardian
Matthew Rimmer2d ago
'Did Woolworths trick shoppers into snapping up Tim Tams because they thought the price had dropped when really it had been jacked up?' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/woolworths-accc-court-case-grocery-pricing-discounts/106561584 #auspol #auslaw #consumerlaw #ACCC
Did you really get a discount on your Tim Tams? The ACCC doesn't think so

The sequel to Australia’s supermarket pricing wars is about to kick off in the federal court as the ACCC takes on Woolworths over what it argues are misleading pricing practices.

Matthew Rimmer4d ago
‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/energy-for-australians-accepted-1m-coal-australia-independent-claims
Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public
#auspol #auslaw #greenwashing #astroturfing #donations #lobbying #influence
‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby

Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public

The Guardian
Matthew Rimmer6d ago
US Live Nation and Ticketmaster verdict triggers calls for Australian investigation into ticketing rules https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/18/us-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-verdict-triggers-calls-for-australian-investigation-into-ticketing-rules
One insider estimates Australians pay A$10 in fees per ticket, with fans bearing the burden of monopolised music tour schedules and inflated artist values
#competition #uslaw #uspol #antitrust #auslaw #auspol
US Live Nation and Ticketmaster verdict triggers calls for Australian investigation into ticketing rules

One insider estimates Australians pay A$10 in fees per ticket, with fans bearing the burden of monopolised music tour schedules and inflated artist values

The Guardian
Matthew RimmerApr 16
Bundjalung elder's mission to find breastplate stolen from Lismore Museum
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-14/calls-to-bring-aboriginal-bundjalung-artefact-home/105758992
#IndigenousIP #repatriation #auslaw
Aboriginal elder's mission to get stolen artefact back after 70 years

An Aboriginal breastplate given to Jack Kapeen in 1865 disappeared from a Lismore museum about 100 years later, only to be sold at auction in 2011. 

Matthew RimmerApr 16
NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/16/nsws-highest-court-strikes-down-anti-protest-law-introduced-in-wake-of-bondi-beach-terror-attack-ntwnfb
Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional. #nswpol #auslaw
NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack

Court finds law – which effectively meant protesters could not march without risk of arrest – is unconstitutional

The Guardian
Matthew RimmerApr 16
Australian federal court issues warning to lawyers over 'unacceptable' use of AI. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/16/australia-federal-court-warning-lawyers-ai-artificial-intelligence?CMP=share_btn_url #ai #auslaw #auspol
Australian federal court warns lawyers over ‘unacceptable’ use of AI

New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errors

The Guardian
Matthew RimmerApr 14

Landmark case on academic cheating results in $500,000 fine

https://www.smh.com.au/national/study-company-helping-australian-university-students-cheat-sued-in-landmark-court-case-20260408-p5zm3t.html

Providing a cheating service to Australian university students has cost study support business Chegg half a million dollars plus legal fees.

#auslaw #auspol #education

Study company helping Australian university students cheat sued in landmark court case

Providing a cheating service to Australian university students has cost study support business Chegg half a million dollars plus legal fees.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Matthew RimmerApr 11

'APYACC says it suffered a significant financial loss as a result of The Australian’s reporting, including a downturn in sales. And while their state funding was reinstated last year, the collective believes their expulsion from the Indigenous Art Code, as a result of the allegations, has adversely affected their federal funding applications in the years since.

In a defamation suit lodged with South Australia’s supreme court, the collective is suing Nationwide News, publisher of The Australian newspaper, for $4.4m: a figure that includes the loss of the NGA sale, which they put at $1,397,000, and their lost federal funding, which they estimated at $1.07m.' https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2026/apr/11/apy-lands-indigenous-australian-art-exhibition-nga-ngura-pulka-lawsuit #IndigenousIP #defamation #auslaw #auspol #art #media

After three years, investigations and now a $4.4m lawsuit, Australia’s most controversial art exhibition finally opens

Ngura Puḻka at the National Gallery of Australia is a landmark exhibition of 30 paintings by Indigenous artists in the APY Arts Centre Collective, which was investigated over claims white workers had interfered with black art

The Guardian