A Queensland boarding school failed to properly care for a student after she was allegedly gang-raped by older boys while boarding there in 2006, a royal commission has been urged to find. Counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, David Lloyd, made submissions harshly criticising Townsville’s Uniting Church-run Shalom Christian…
Distressed debt players are used to getting their hands dirty, but the team from SC Lowy might be about to take that a bit further as they run their eye over one of Australia’s biggest hydroponic farms. Maria’s Farm Veggies is a $65 million venture that was to grow tomatoes and capsicums inside a 16-hectare glasshouse at Williamtown…
Resolving the differences in a divided playing group looms as the biggest immediate challenge for whoever becomes Gold Coast’s next NRL coach. Neil Henry, the man appointed in 2014 following the sacking of foundation coach John Cartwright, was axed on Monday with a year remaining on his contract. It brings an underwhelming end to a…
COAST parents Jesse and Vanessa Serrell had no idea anything was wrong when they went into a Coast store to pay their lay-by down on Wednesday. On Thursday they discovered through the Bubs Baby Shops Facebook page the company had gone into receivership after 17 years in business. The couple is expecting their third baby…
Written by Aditi Vatsa | New Delhi | Updated: August 21, 2017 5:42 am Cut to Sectors 128 and 134 along the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, where visitors are instead greeted by unfinished concrete towers that give the impression of an abandoned town.Express photo by Gajendra Yadav An artists impression of a township showing an array…
NEW DELHI: The insolvency resolution professional (IRP) handling the Jaypee Infratech case has ruled out the possibility of home buyers getting refunds, but has assured efforts are being made to ensure the continuation of project development. The Allahabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on August 9 classified Jaypee Infratech as insolvent on…
Photo: PTI Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Previous laws were only partly effective in resolving the problems of insolvency and bankruptcy in the corporate world and one would have to wait to judge the effectiveness of the current mechanism to deal with the issue, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. “Earlier, if companies were for…
MUMBAI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday that while previous laws were only partly effective in resolving the problems of insolvency and bankruptcy in the corporate world, one would have to wait to judge the effectiveness of the current mechanism to deal with the issue. “Earlier, if companies were for insolvency, they got stuck…
According to high-profile Sydney art dealer Tim Goodman, if Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had his way Michelangelo’s statue of David would be draped in a respectable loin cloth while Norman Lindsay’s randy nymphs would be relegated to a sleazy back room at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, well out of public view. Goodman has come…
In business, as in life, it’s good to have a Robin to your Batman, a Goose to your Maverick. In the case of Myer, chief executive Richard Umbers has now assembled the Flying V. The executive level shake-up was brought on after the sudden departure of the retailer’s deputy chief executive and Mr Umbers’ key…