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The fishing industry has launched a $150 million class action against the federal government over its failure to keep white spot disease out of Australia.

Premium Content Subscriber only The first class action case to be tried in a Queensland court has moved its scheduled trial date due to COVID-19 restrictions impacting expert reports and evidence gathering. More than 150 people (commercial fishermen and associated businesses) have filed a class action case against Gladstone Ports Corporation, seeking up to $150 million in damages. The claim by fishers from Bowen to Sydney including Keppel Bay, Stanage Bay and Gladstone region, is dredging and associated works in 2011 during the Gladstone Port expansion project polluted waters and seas, degrad...

Premium Content Subscriber only Lawyers for Gladstone Ports Corporation continue their efforts to have a class action case against the government-owned entity thrown out by way of 400-year-old torts. The lawyers have filed an application with Australia’s High Court, asking for the decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal to be set aside, which upheld the decision by Supreme Court in Rockhampton’s Justice Graeme Crow on September 13, 2020. Government-owned GPC is being sued by more than 150 people (fishers) in Queensland and New South Wales – from Bowen to Sydney including Keppel Bay, ...