Australia’s competition watchdog will not get directly involved in a stalemate that threatens to delay opening up the eConveyancing platform to competitors, as it’s not the relevant regulator.
The Federal Assistant Minister for Competition wants states to impose deadlines and penalties to ensure the reform of the lucrative electronic conveyancing industry stays on track. The call comes after the interoperability regulator stopped its decade-long work on the change that would dismantle the monopoly help by the publicly-listed PEXA.
Leaders Eva Lawlor and Lia Finocchiaro have gone head-to-head in a civil debate as the NT government prepares to enter election caretaker mode.
Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has used a speech to party faithful to pitch a crackdown on cultural heritage process delays to speed up housing builds.
After electronic conveyancing regulator ARNECC paused its decade-long work to facilitate interoperability in the industry and break a property settlement monopoly, two states bodies have vowed to push ahead with the reform.
The Australian president of CrowdStrike has apologised for the cybersecurity company's role in causing an outage that crippled global IT systems. Friday's outage, which hit an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, was caused by a logic flaw in a software update sent by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike to its customers, the company's Australian president Michael Sentonas told Sky News.
As technology evolves, so do criminals, and the government must update its infrastructure and standards to keep Australians safe, an expert has urged.
A recovery in home building is coming but will take time and is still expected to fall short of the 1.2 million national target.
If you’re reading this and live outside of Victoria, you may be forgiven for no being so familiar with the Melbourne suburb of Tarneit. And this month you may ask yourself why. Tarneit rocketed to the top of the sales charts during June at a time when inner city living…
The push for space and price – bang for buck – continues to draw buyers north of Brisbane to the suburb of Morayfield. Just as it has done so consistently for months, Morayfield drew more homebuyers to the area than any location in Queensland last month. And it wasn’t by…
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