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Foreign investment in agricultural land in Australia

Feelings can run high and a large majority (81%) of Australians are against the Australian Government allowing foreign investors to buy Australian farmland to grow crops or farm livestock, with 63% saying they are strongly against. I was recently asked to comment on Dick Smith’s reject...

Vessel operators: are you cruising for a bruising?

Mrs Ellery – who was 82 years of age – was joining her family for a day cruise around the Whitsunday Islands in May 2012 and had entered the vessel’s main saloon area shortly after embarking the vessel. The precise circumstances of Mrs Ellery’s fall were not dete...