In this article, our Head of Client Success and Chair of our Reconciliation Action Group Working Group, Peter Mooney, reflects on what reconciliation means to him.

This article also summarises how our firm assisted the Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC to protect a culturally sensitive story site on Muralag (Prince of Wales Island).

Holman Webb Lawyers was recently involved in Federal Court litigation to protect the Great Artesian Basin (“GAB”).

This article provides a high-level summary of the case and highlights the need for legislative reform to protect vital freshwater resources in Australia.

This article summarises the current status of Australia's corporate insolvency laws and explores the impact of the 2025 Federal election. 

There have been a number of recent high-profile industrial incidents in Australia which demonstrate the increased expectations and positive obligations on employers to take action in incidents of workplace sexual harassment.

This article revisits the definition of sexual harassment and highlights the impact of changes to the law made in 2023.

This article provides a high-level summary of the general rule under the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) regarding unsolicited emails, and the main exception to the general rule. 

In an effort to tackle the housing challenge, the Federal Government recently announced that it will impose a temporary ban on foreign purchases of established dwellings in Australia, and crack down on land banking.

This brief article re-publishes the Federal Government’s announcement about these new changes, which includes the relevant dates and exceptions that will apply to the new restrictions.

A recent decision in the Fair Work Commission highlights the risk to employers seeking to terminate an employee that there may be evidence, unknown to them, that supports a finding of unfair dismissal. This article summarises the Commission’s findings in this case and how this impacts employers.

New Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing reforms will change the way certain service providers work with their customers and clients. This article summarises how these changes will impact clients and customers when the reforms come into effect on and from 1 July 2026. 

This article contains a summary of three real-life examples that highlight the current risks of relying solely on AI for legal research. 

The Full Federal Court of Australia (FCA) found that an employer was required to consider whether its employees could have been redeployed to positions occupied by employees of contractors instead of having their positions made redundant.