Big tweak in insolvency law on cards, defaulters may be barred from bidding – Economic Times

NEW DELHI: The government is considering amending its insolvency law to prevent existing promoters of bankrupt companies from reacquiring them during the resolution process at a steep discount. The current Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, passed last year, does not prevent promoters from bidding for these stressed assets during the resolution process. Some owners are reported…

Man found dead in Barmah – Riverine Herald

UPDATE 9.45pm: LATE last year the former wife of Boutique nightclub owner Darren “Razzle” Thornburgh was left shaken after shotgun fire peppered her luxury Port Melbourne house in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of Friday morning. Police say Denise Thornburgh and her teenage daughter were asleep inside the upmarket, cream-coloured home on Beacon Vista,…

Pauline Hanson furious as new senator Fraser Anning dumps One Nation – The Australian Financial Review

One Nation is in disarray after new Queensland senator Fraser Anning quit the party to sit as an independent crossbencher. A furious One Nation leader Pauline Hanson accused disloyal staffers for influencing Senator Anning’s decision to abandon the party but confirmed she had not wanted Senator Anning to take up his seat. Senator Anning’s departure…

Debt payment delays could lead to ‘liquidity crunch’, warns McGrathNicol – The Australian Financial Review

Smaller contractors and building materials companies could face a liquidity crunch if big construction and engineering groups keep delaying payments to suppliers, McGrathNicol has warned. Construction and engineering companies paid suppliers 10.5 days more slowly in 2016-17 than they did a year earlier, reversing the previous trend of paying suppliers faster, according to the insolvency…