Latest Australia Headlines
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What Is Causing Australia’s Incessant Rain?
Jul 5 2022 // MELBOURNE — Torrential rain is lashing Australia’s southeast coast, forcing thousands of people from their homes because of the danger of floods and landslides in a region battered by major flooding four times...
Probe Into Australia’s Mining Sector Uncovers ‘Horrific’ Sexual Abuses
Jun 29 2022 // A landmark inquiry into Australia’s mining sector has uncovered dozens of shocking cases of sexual harassment and abuse of women workers at companies including BHP Group and Rio Tinto Group. The Western Australia...
BMS Acquires Australian Retail Broker SRG Group
Jun 16 2022 // BMS, the London-based independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the acquisition of SRG Group, the Australian corporate retail broker with operations in Perth and Queensland. Founded in 2005, SRG is...
Google Ordered to Pay Former Australian Lawmaker for Defamatory YouTube Videos
Jun 6 2022 // SYDNEY – An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTuber’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory”...
Australia Faces Growing Risk of Foot-and-Mouth Disease as Indonesia Outbreak Spreads
Jun 3 2022 // The risk of foot-and-mouth disease reaching Australian shores has escalated as an outbreak sweeps through cattle herds in Indonesia. More than 20,000 animals have been infected by foot-and-mouth disease across 16...
Australia’s AUB Group Agrees to Purchase UK Broker Tysers for US$615.2 Million
May 10 2022 // Australia’s AUB Group has entered into a binding agreement to purchase UK insurance broker Tysers for A$880 million (US$615.2 million) from private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners. AUB Group recently raised...
Insurance Price Tag for Australia’s Record-Breaking Floods Estimated at A$3.35B: ICA
May 6 2022 // The storms and floods that hit South-East Queensland and coastal New South Wales in February and March are likely to be Australia’s costliest floods on record, according to the Insurance Council of Australia...
Australia’s Westpac Banking Fined A$113M for Multiple Compliance Breaches
Apr 22 2022 // An Australian court ordered Westpac Banking Corp. to pay A$113 million ($82.92 million) in penalties for multiple compliance failures across its businesses, after hearing the last of the six cases filed against it by the...
Insured Losses From Eastern Australia Floods Estimated at A$4B: PERILS
Apr 21 2022 // Initial insurance losses for the Eastern Australia floods are estimated at A$3.99 billion (US$2.97 billion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance...
Australia Should Force Firms to Report Human Rights Abuses in Anti-Slavery Law: Analyst
Apr 8 2022 // Australia should force companies to report potential human rights abuses as part of a review of its modern slavery disclosure rules, according to an analyst at a A$16 billion ($12 billion) fund manager who helped draft the...
Reinsurers to Bear Brunt of Australia Flood Claims: AM Best
Apr 5 2022 // The majority of gross losses from recent devastating flooding in Australia likely will be borne by reinsurers with limited impact on primary insurers’ balance sheets, according to an AM Best report. The flooding...
Update: Heavy Rains Deluge Australian Towns for 2nd Time in a Month
Mar 30 2022 // Heavy rains deluged Australia’s east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of people fled their homes for the second time within weeks after fast-moving flood waters burst river banks and broke...
Greenlight Re Innovations Invests in Australia’s Audit Insurance Startup AuditCover
Mar 25 2022 // Greenlight Re Innovations (GRI), part of Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., announced an investment in AuditCover Australia Pty Ltd., a tax audit insurtech. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. AuditCover is an...
Australian Court Overturns Ruling Requiring Mine Regulator to Weigh Climate Harm to Children
Mar 15 2022 // An Australian court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the country’s environment minister to consider harm to children from climate change as part of the approval process for a...
Australia, Netherlands Start Legal Proceedings Against Russia for Crash of Flight MH17
Mar 14 2022 // Australia and the Netherlands started legal proceedings against Russia over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, more than seven years after the deadly crash. The move, at the International Civil Aviation...
Climate Change Is Making Australia a More Difficult Place to Live: Prime Minister
Mar 9 2022 // Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded that a changing climate is making the country a more difficult place to live as he declared recent destructive flooding on the east coast a national...
Property, Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims From Severe Australia Floods at A$900M and Rising
Mar 4 2022 // Property and auto insurers in Australia have received 60,163 claims related to the ongoing disastrous flooding in South-East Queensland and New South Wales. Based on previous flood events, the Insurance Council of...
Record Floods on Australia’s East Coast Have Cost At Least 14 Lives
Mar 3 2022 // Sydney was preparing on Wednesday for dangerous flash flooding as population centers farther north began a massive cleanup operation after record floods that have claimed at least 14 lives along Australia’s east...
HDI Global Restructures Asia-Pacific Operations, Simplifying Reporting Structures
Feb 17 2022 // Industrial insurer HDI Global SE has restructured its Asia Pacific operations in a move designed to simplify reporting structures in the region and strengthen its offering for customers and business partners. The reform of...
Gangs Now Arbitrate Payment Disputes as Ransomware Growth Continues
Feb 14 2022 // Cyber criminal gangs are getting increasingly adept at hacking and becoming more professional, even setting up an arbitration system to resolve payment disputes among themselves, according to a new report by the United...
