New legislation introduced into Australia’s Parliament will place a “positive duty” on employers to prevent workplace sexual harassment, as part...                
            
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                    Australia is on high alert for foot-and-mouth disease in its cattle herds after traces of the virus were found on...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. agreed to buy Suncorp Group Ltd.’s banking operations for A$4.9 billion ($3.3 billion)...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    BMS, the London-based independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the acquisition of SRG Group, the Australian corporate retail broker...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    The risk of foot-and-mouth disease reaching Australian shores has escalated as an outbreak sweeps through cattle herds in Indonesia. More...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    Australia should force companies to report potential human rights abuses as part of a review of its modern slavery disclosure...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    io.insure, the world’s first online mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance marketplace for small and medium-sized business (SME) transactions, announced it...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Caulfield, Victoria-based Sound Insurance Services in Australia. Terms of the transaction...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    Australia’s corporate regulator said on Friday it was suing MLC Life Insurance for causing financial harm of A$17.5 million ($12.73...                
            
         
        
    
    
                    SYDNEY – A small Australian publisher is calling for the government to enforce a new law to compel Facebook Inc...                
            
         
