Training provider goes into voluntary administration – Learning & Development Professional (blog)

A vocational training provider with more than 450 students and 30 staff has gone into voluntary administration. The College of Australian Training is a Registered Training Organisation who provided nationally recognised training in 35 different locations across Australia. The organisation is based in Queensland and has campuses in Townsville, Cairns, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. The College…

Problem gambling linked to recidivism as prisoners rack up debt behind bars – Stuff.co.nz

Prisoners are clocking up debt from behind bars and are often unaware they have a gambling problem. A new pilot scheme will target gambling in prisons to reduce rates of reoffending and standover tactics behind bars. The Problem Gambling Foundation is preparing to roll out a pilot program across three Canterbury prisons. Remand residents would have…

Oilsands producer Connacher seeks court protection 12 months after restructuring – CanadianBusiness.com

CALGARY Twelve months after emerging from a court-supervised restructuring, junior oilsands producer Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. is again seeking court protection from creditors. The Calgary company announced Monday that it had asked the Court of Queens Bench for shielding under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act while it tries to arrange a sale of its…

Liquidated Northland company owes $1.7 million – New Zealand Herald

Kristin Lammerting of Kerikeri’s Palmco Café blames the liquidation on mismanagement by a general manager she employed and an accountant. Photo / Peter de Graaf A Northland business liquidated after it ran into financial difficulties owes nearly 100 companies throughout the country more than $1.7 million. The largest amount owed by Kerikeri-based LIG Lammerting Business…

Pentagon: China is restructuring itself for war – Business Insider Australia

Chinas military underwent a major restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment of the Communist Party-controlled Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The armed forces were reformed with new military regions, a new command structure, and updated strategies to better fight regional, high technology…