News: Legal
WA Institute of Sport hit by mass board resignations
The ongoing impact of the 2022 Sport Integrity Australia report which found that the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) allowed women in its gymnastics program to be...
Sep 10, 2023
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Senate Inquiry delivers 13 recommendations over sport concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports
Major sporting codes, including the NRL and AFL, should have mandatory return-to-play protocols in concussion, including 21 days out of competition to allow players to properly...
Sep 5, 2023
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Government
Judge dismisses charges against brothers who own Whakaari White Island
The three brothers who own Whakaari White Island have had the individual charges against them dismissed in an Auckland Court. Andrew, James and Peter Buttle - who inherited the...
Sep 5, 2023
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Fair Work Ombudsman takes legal action against venue security services company
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the Agile Group (Global) Pty Ltd - an Adelaide-based Indigenous owned and operated company - that provides nightclub...
Aug 30, 2023
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Criminal trial into White Island deaths hears evidence from volcano owners
The Auckland District Court trial over the deaths of 22 people on New Zealand’s White Island/Whakaari in December 2019 has heard from the one of the three brothers who own the...
Aug 25, 2023
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Coopers Stadium bans Melbourne Victory fans for A-League Men games
Fearing potential fan violence, Adelaide Venue Management, operators of Adelaide’s Coopers Stadium, have announced a ban on Melbourne Victory fans attending A-League Men's...
Aug 23, 2023
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Ardent Leisure agrees $26 million shareholder class action settlement following Dreamworld ride deaths
Ardent Leisure is to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit arising from the deaths of four Dreamworld guests in 2016. The death of four people on the Gold...
Aug 23, 2023
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Attractions
Gymnastics Australia joins national redress scheme to compensate survivors of child sexual abuse
Gymnastics Australia has joined the national redress scheme set up in response to the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, more than two years...
Aug 23, 2023
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Recreation
Western Australian Police warn trespassers over accessing Perth's Adventure World
Western Australia Police have issued a statement discouraging youth from trespassing at Perth's Adventure World. The warning comes after footage emerged on social media of...
Aug 21, 2023
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Waterparks
F45 moves to pull its shares from the New York Stock Exchange
Australian-founded gym chain F45 intends to delist its shares from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), after what one market observer dubbed a “disaster” run for the company...
Aug 17, 2023
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Fitness
New data from Starlizard Integrity Services identifies 79 suspicious football matches in 2023
Sports betting integrity specialists - Starlizard Integrity Services - has advised that their latest data identifies 79 football matches played around the world between 1st...
Aug 16, 2023
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Finance
South-east Melbourne hospitality sector targeted by Fair Work Ombudsman
Melbourne’s south-east hospitality sector is being targeted by the Fair Work Ombudsman with surprise inspections of food outlets being undertaken this week to check workers are...
Aug 15, 2023
Legal /
Hospitality
NSW Fair Trading investigates Canberra United sponsorship-for-tickets scheme
NSW Fair Trading is probing concerns that A-League Women’s club Canberra United may have breached the state’s anti-ticket scalping laws by offering access to tickets for the...
Aug 14, 2023
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Ticketing
South Australian campaign urges sports fans to ‘blow the whistle’ on coercive control
Coinciding with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, a $200,000 South Australian Government communication campaign is educating fans on the insidious ways that controlling and...
Aug 13, 2023
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Gold Coast's WhiteWater World sued for more than $1 million over guest's alleged waterslide injury
The WhiteWater World waterpark on the Gold Coast is being sued for more than $1 million after an eight-year-old girl allegedly suffered serious internal injuries on one of its...
Aug 9, 2023
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Waterparks
Legal victory for Melbourne's Merri-bek Council as Court orders return of open space
An area of land in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick intended for free use by local residents has been ordered to be sold back to Merri-bek City Council by the Supreme Court, in...
Aug 9, 2023
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Recreation /
Parks
Sydney UFC gym franchise collapses
An independent Western Sydney-based franchisee of the UFC Gym chain has gone into liquidation with debts of more than $1.2 million. Just over a month after the master franchisor...
Aug 8, 2023
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Fitness
Western Australian Government overturns recently introduced Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage laws that came into effect in Western Australia just over a month ago, have been overturned by the Western Australian Government – claiming the new...
Aug 7, 2023
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Arts
Transformed Quayclean responds to Fair Work Ombudsman decision
Quayclean Australia said today it accepts the ruling from the Fair Work Ombudsman in relation to an investigation at Etihad Stadium, almost six years ago, in September 2017...
Aug 6, 2023
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Fair Work Ombudsman recovers $332,964 for underpayment of Marvel Stadium cleaners
The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $332,964 in penalties in court in response to underpayment of cleaners at Etihad Stadium (now Marvel Stadium) in Melbourne’s Docklands. The...
Aug 6, 2023
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Venues
Federal Court finds Delta and its director attempted to rig National Gallery of Australia tender
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has advised that the Federal Court found Delta Building Automation Ltd (Delta) and its sole director, Timothy Davis to...
Aug 1, 2023
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Protesters march against neo-Nazi powerlifting event at Melbourne gym
Hundreds of protestors have come together over the weekend in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine West to protest a neo-Nazi powerlifting event being held at the Legacy Boxing Gym....
Jul 30, 2023
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Fitness
The Grass Is Greener festival organiser to be liquidated with $3 million debts
Creditors including multiple suppliers and contractors of a failed music festival will likely get nothing after the company behind The Grass is Greener was wound up with debts...
Jul 26, 2023
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The 1975 cancels Indonesia and Taiwan shows after row over Malaysia's LGBT laws
British pop-rock band The 1975 has cancelled upcoming concerts in Indonesia and Taiwan after its appearance at a music festival in Malaysia was cut short. Appearing at...
Jul 23, 2023
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