Australia, June 20 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. This matter was listed before me this morning for hearing of the respondent's notice of motion seeking orders that the Applicant's application for victimisation be summarily dismissed. 2. Minutes before commencing the hearing this morning of that notice of motion, I received notification from the Commission's registry that the Applicant had submitted two documents to the Commis...
CANBERRA, ACT, June 19 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: economic roundtable, oil prices, superannuation tax reforms Isabella Higgins: Treasurer JimChalmers has outlined his ambition to implement bold tax reforms. In a major speech, he declared he didn't want to engage in a rule‑in‑rule‑out game. He says everything is on the table ahead of a key economic roundtable in August. He joined me a short time ago. Treasurer, this conflic...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is a Class 1 Development Appeal pursuant to s 4.55(8) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) being an application to the Court to modify a Development Consent granted by the Court (Modification Application). 2. On 13 December 2022, the Court delivered judgment in Redsab Pty Ltd v Liverpool City Council [2022] NSWLEC 1689, granting con...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is a Class 1 Development Appeal pursuant to s 8.18 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) being an appeal against the Development Control Order (DCO) NO-5593 in terms of Order No. 1 (stop use), 3 (demolish works) and 10 (restore works) (DCO) pursuant to s 9.34 and sch 5, Pt 1 of the EPA Act at 89-91 Ramsgate Avenue, North Bondi NSW 202...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. Andrew James Tanswell and George Phoenix Leilua, you both appear for sentence in relation to five principal offences of robbery in company which you committed together in the period 29 May 2023 to 15 June 2023 inclusive and which arose from five discrete incidents. Each of those incidents involved a different victim. 2. On the Court's own initiative, and pursuant to s8(a), (d) ...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is an appeal pursuant to s 8.7 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) against the refusal of development application 2023/0527 (DA) for demolition, construction of a dwelling house, parking, swimming pool and cabana at Lot 5 DP 112706, known as 48 Vista Street, Sans Souci (site). 2. The Respondent, as the relevant consent authority, h...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. Francisco Hill, also known as Frank Hill, was a registered nurse. These proceedings concern complaints brought by the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) against Mr Hill. The particulars of the complaints concern, variously, harassment, including sexual harassment by Mr Hill of staff reporting to him or working alongside him in the period between 2016 and March 2022. 2. By...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. COMMISSIONER: This appeal concerns a development application for the construction of a 3-storey co-living housing development, ground level (and under croft) car park, and associated civil, stormwater and landscaping works at 11 Blaxland Avenue, Penrith. The development application was lodged on 26 March 2024. Following the expiry of the period after which a development applicat...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. Mr Fulvio Damico (the Appellant) applied to the Secretary of the Department of Customer Service (the Respondent) for the renewal of his contractor licence under the Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) (HB Act) in the category of painter (the licence renewal application). The Respondent refused the application on the basis that the Respondent was not satisfied that the Appellant is a fi...
Australia, June 18 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19: 1. This is an application by Mikael Isacson ("the Applicant") for review of a decision by the Commissioner For Fair Trading ("the Respondent") to refuse the Applicant's application for a certificate of registration under the Property and Stock Agents Act 2002 ("the Act"). 2. The Applicant applied for a Certificate of Registration - Assistant Agent under the Act. A delegate of the ...