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2 months ago | 
lexology.com | Anthony Wood |Lucy Boyd |Katie Bull
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2 months ago | 
lexology.com | Anthony Wood |Lucy Boyd |Amandi Munasinghe |Claire Taylor
Looking into the crystal ball for 2025 - with a Federal election pending – we’re not expecting any major legislative changes. However, the impact of Labor’s first term reforms will continue to be felt, and a heightened regulatory environment will persist.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
pressofatlanticcity.com | Anthony Wood
Never, in the 20-plus years it had been issuing outlooks, had the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted so many tropical storms to develop in the Atlantic hurricane basin, with conditions across thousands of miles of ocean aligned perfectly. "That's the highest forecast that we've had," Ken Graham, National Hurricane Center director, announced at the annual preseason media briefing in May. NOAA seconded the motion in its Aug.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Anthony Wood
That the tornadoes in “Twisters” came with a dearth of warnings bothered Richard Smith. This was a somewhat personal matter. Smith is the warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, and all of those things in the movie touched down on his turf. Rest assured, he said, in real life, watches and warnings would have been issued. kAm(92E’D >@C6[ 96 BF6DE:@?65 E96 >@G:6’D A@CEC2J2= @7 E9@D6 H9@ =:G6 :? 2? :?E6C?2E:@?2= ?6IFD @7 E@C?25@6D 2?5 2C6 >@C6 E92?
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thederrick.com | Anthony Wood
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
sentinelsource.com | Anthony Wood
That the tornadoes in "Twisters" came with a dearth of warnings bothered Richard Smith. This was a somewhat personal matter. Smith is the warning coordinator meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, and all of those things in the movie touched down on his turf. Rest assured, he said, in real life, watches and warnings would have been issued.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
thedailycitizen.com | Anthony Wood
PHILADELPHIA — The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be destructive and costly and has the potential to be one of the busiest on record. That's the consensus of several major forecasting services, all of which point to conditions in the tropical Pacific and in the Atlantic hurricane-formation zone that are ripe for a tropical-storm harvest.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Anthony Wood |Lucy Boyd |Ali McPherson
On 12 December 2023, the Australian Human Rights Commission
(AHRC) gained its enforcement powers in respect of
the new Federal positive duty to prevent workplace sexual
harassment and related unlawful conduct. This means that, for the
first time, Australian employers are now subject to regulatory
scrutiny from the AHRC in relation to their approach.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Anthony Wood |Adam Ray
Judging by the pace of change that we’ve experienced this year – in particular the government’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay reforms and now the first tranche of the Closing the Loopholes reforms - the momentum for change is heading into 2024 apace. Not all employers will be impacted equally (or directly) by the issues we’ve identified, but we have no doubt that every Australian business will be affected. 1.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Anthony Wood |Lucy Boyd
This month the Australian Human Rights Council (the
AHRC) has published its Guidelines for Complying
with the Positive Duty under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984
(Cth) (the Guidelines). These Guidelines are the
AHRC's comprehensive legal guidance on the duty, and the AHRC
has indicated it will be using these guidelines to assess
compliance.
