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08 September 2008

First home concession increase to $500,000 effective (Qld)

The Queensland State Revenue Office has advised that first home buyers may end up paying nil duty if the value of the home is not more than $500,000.

NSW mini-budget to go ahead

NSW Premier Nathan Rees has confirmed he will proceed with the deposed Iemma government’s intention of delivering a mini-budget in November.

Eligibility for First Home Owner Grant clarified (Qld)

The Queensland State Revenue Office has released Practice Direction FHOG 9.1, setting out the administrative arrangement that ensures that a first home owner grant (FHOG) may be payable to a purchaser under the Department of Housing's Pathways Shared Equity Product even though the State of Queensland (represented by the Department of Housing) is a co-owner of the property with the purchaser.

RBA can't totally rule out recession

Services for children in family breakdown

Counselling and services for children going through family separation have been given a financial boost from the Federal Government.

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	Killed in shed by front-end loader
	The Magistrates Court has ruled that a smelter company did not have a suitable system to prevent man-machine contact when one of its employees was killed by a front-end loader.
	Council liable for bin accident
	A council has been found liable for an man's injuries which occurred at a transfer station when he was throwing a television away and the plug hit him in the eye.
	Emergency hysterectomy and the issue of consent
	The Court of Appeal has ruled that a doctor did not require informed consent from a patient to perform an emergency hysterectomy when complications arose during a uterine evacuation.

	In Selim v Lele [2008] FCAFC 13 two doctors sought to challenge the validity of the Professional Services Review (PSR) Scheme in Pt VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) (the Act). Both doctors had been found by the PSR committee to have engaged in inappropriate practice. The doctors argued that the PSR Scheme and certain other key provisions of the Act “offend the prohibition on civil conscription in s 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution” (see para 3 of the judgment). The proceedings were heard together by the Full Court of the Federal Court, comprised of Black CJ, Finn and Lander JJ and the Attorney-General for the Commonwealth intervened.
	Doctor's bitter tax bill
	The AAT has upheld amended assessments issued by the Commissioner to a medical practitioner which attributed to her substantial sums of money that had been syphoned off to associated companies through the clinic she practised at.