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Plain-English guides to Australian law — bonds, tradies, tribunals, consumer rights, and more. Written so you can actually act on them.
Tenant ordered to pay $3,386.85 rent arrears after rent-increase ruling overturned on appeal (QCAT, 2026)
A tribunal member dismissed a landlord's rent arrears claim after finding the rent increase notice was invalid, including because it did not say when rent was last increased. On appeal, QCAT's Appeal…
Read Guide →Landlords’ appeal cuts wrongful eviction payout from $12,323 to $3,793 after rent deducted (QCAT, 2026)
Landlords emailed their new tenants a breach notice over an unpaid bond, then told them to be out in two days, and…
Read Guide →VCAT summarily dismisses COVID compensation claim over an officer’s authorisation
A Victorian man applied for compensation under the public health legislation, arguing the Chief Health Officer had insufficient grounds to authorise one…
Read Guide →Council refusal upheld: no permit to remove two healthy canopy trees for a larger shed (VCAT, 2026)
Two owners of a Frankston property asked for a planning permit to remove two mature lilly pilly trees so they could build…
Read Guide →Council refusal set aside and permit granted for 15 three-storey dwellings on a sloping Doncaster site (VCAT, 2026)
A developer company asked the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to review Manningham City Council's refusal of a planning permit for 15…
Read Guide →Appeal allowed: NCAT to rehear whether $50-a-fortnight room payments created a tenancy
A woman moved into a friend's three-bedroom house, paid nothing for two and a half years, then started paying $50 a fortnight…
Read Guide →Tenant wins appeal after tribunal overlooked her CCTV evidence of night-time driveway noise (NCAT, 2026)
A social housing tenant complained that a crack in the driveway beside her bedroom made cars thump loudly in the early hours,…
Read Guide →Appeal dismissed: NCAT had no power to hear a car claim by an owner who inherited the vehicle
A woman inherited a new MG from her late father two weeks after he bought it, and years later the car began…
Read Guide →Separating with more than $1 million in assets? Property settlement steps and time limits
Separating or divorcing with a home, investment properties, a business, trusts or large super? The time limits, how courts divide property, the…
Read Guide →Can’t work because of illness or injury? How the TPD insurance in your super works
Most super funds include TPD and income protection insurance. How to find out if you are covered, how to claim, the AFCA…
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