All the headlines from our Australia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2025 // The regulatory landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly evolving, influencing insurers’ risk management and capital adequacy. Australia and Malaysia are two examples of markets where recent regulatory...
Apr 15 2025 // Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday Clorox’s local unit had been fined A$8.25 million ($5.19 million) by the Federal Court over falsely claiming its GLAD kitchen and garbage bags were partially...
Apr 7 2025 // Dutch Broker HW International Completes Management BuyoutHW International BV (HWI BV), the privately held, Dutch insurance broker, has completed a management buyout with the backing of OBL Investments BV, a privately held...
Apr 4 2025 // Hackers targeting Australia’s major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, and compromised more...
Apr 3 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. this week announced two acquisitions – of the UK’s Bircroft Insurance Services and Australia’s Tresidder Insurance Brokers.Financial details of the transactions were not...
Apr 1 2025 // Australia’s remote outback in western Queensland has been swamped by flooding after being lashed with a year’s worth of rainfall in a week, sweeping away tens of thousands of livestock.Up to 500 millimeters...
Mar 31 2025 // MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global re/insurer, announced the opening of an Australian branch office in Sydney, subject to Lloyd’s approval.Leading the branch office is Matt Botfield who has been named head of...
Mar 18 2025 // Australian pension fund Active Super has been fined A$10.5 million ($6.7 million) for making a number of misrepresentations about its environmental, social and governance credentials amid a regulator push to stamp out...
Mar 17 2025 // Cyclone Alfred will cost Australia’s March 25 budget at least A$1.2 billion [US$759 million], hit growth and put pressure on inflation, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says.In a Tuesday speech previewing the budget, Chalmers...
Mar 13 2025 // The Australian securities watchdog said on Thursday it is taking fixed-income broker FIIG to court, alleging it failed to implement adequate cybersecurity measures over a four-year period, which enabled a hacker to...
Mar 6 2025 // Australia’s prudential regulator has long-serving board directors in its sights with a proposal to limit their terms to 10 years.The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s suggestion was one of several in...
Mar 5 2025 // Australia’s largest property and casualty (P/C) insurers should be well placed to manage claims stemming from tropical cyclone Alfred, which could top A$2billion (US$1.3 billion), according to a report published by...
Mar 5 2025 // Millions of Australians are bracing for a direct hit from a tropical cyclone heading toward the nation’s third-biggest city, with the storm already forcing evacuations and closing ports and schools throughout...
Mar 4 2025 // A large swathe of Australia’s east coast is preparing for strong winds and life-threatening flooding from a tropical cyclone that’s forecast to make landfall north of the nation’s third-largest...
Mar 4 2025 // Pay for women and men at firms in Australia’s financial and insurance services sector remains among the most unequal, according to government data that was expanded to include the salaries of more workers and a...
Feb 26 2025 // Last week the Federal Court fined Australia’s biggest superannuation company, AustralianSuper, A$27 million for overcharging customers.The company had breached its legal obligations under the Superannuation Industry...
Feb 14 2025 // Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Australia’s west coast on Friday, the weather bureau said, lashing the world’s largest iron ore hub with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 290 kph (180 mph).The eye of the...
Feb 13 2025 // Australia’s iron ore hub is bracing for the strongest cyclone to hit the region since at least 2007, threatening port facilities and big mines operated by companies including Rio Tinto Group and BHP Group.Severe...
Feb 12 2025 // Tropical Cyclone Zelia has strengthened off Western Australia and is expected to cross the coast on Friday near the nation’s major iron ore export hub, bringing heavy rain and damaging wind gusts.Zelia is forecast to...
Feb 5 2025 // Australia has banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook Silicon Valley and...