The effects of the COVID-19 crisis have driven many listed Australian companies to raise emergency capital. These share issues have been facilitated by a relaxation of the rules applying to capital raising by the Australian Securities Exchange, a move supported by the Australian Securities and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to some countries, including Australia, enacting temporary changes to their corporate laws to allow virtual meetings of shareholders to be conducted. The purpose of this article is to identify and evaluate the corporate governance arguments arising with a move to...

Publicity orders (POs), which are orders requiring a person or company to publicly disclose information, typically about the person’s or company’s wrongdoing and the penalties imposed by the court for that wrongdoing, are extensively used by some regulators, including the Australian...

This article examines the status of athletes who receive scholarships from the AIS. The objective is to ascertain whether the athletes may be regarded legally as employees. The implications of employment are outlined. From an analysis of the terms of the scholarship agreement and through the...

The Australian Sports Commission requires good governance in allocating funds and has developed Principles of Good Governance for the guidance of sporting organisations. Despite the endorsement of most of the content of the Principles by the Independent Sport Panel in its 2009 Review, there are...

This article examines the organisational structure of the world governing body of the sport of cycling, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). It describes aspects of this structure that are democratically unrepresentative and discriminatory between the members of the organisation. Conflicts...

This article examines recent controversies in the sport of cycling with a focus on the governance of the sport by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). In particular, it examines allegations raised against the UCI in the recent U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team/Lance Armstrong doping...

In the face of declining prominence and influence under industrial relations laws regulating Australian workplaces, Australian trade unions appear increasingly to be directing their attention to Corporations Law as a mechanism for pursuing union and employee "voice" within corporate business...