The Federal Court has found that fashion retailer Fewstone, trading as City Beach, breached the Australian Consumer Law by selling a range of consumer novelty products that did not comply with mandatory button battery safety and information standards. The Court found that between June 2022 and October 2024 City Beach sold more than 60 product types containing button batteries that did not comply with the button battery safety and/or information standards. The products included toys, digital note...

The Allan Labor Government has approved Victoria’s largest-ever battery storage project – a one-gigawatt facility that will deliver cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable renewable energy for hundreds of thousands of homes. Pacific Green’s $1.3 billion Portland Energy Park has been fast-tracked through the Labor Government’s Development Facilitation Program. The project will include four 250-megawatt battery ‘parks’ – enough to power 345,000 homes during pe...