When a country decides to treat digital tokens the same way it treats listed securities, the regulatory signal is unmistakable. The UAE has done exactly that, rolling out a sweeping framework that places virtual asset trading, custody, and investment squarely inside the perimeter of capital markets law. The new rules require any firm involved in … Read more
Few retail compliance questions generate more confusion per square metre than what a NSW bottle shop can legally do on Anzac Day. The rules are genuinely odd — and the gap between what operators assume and what the law actually requires has cost some retailers real money. With Anzac Day falling on Saturday 25 April … Read more
For the second consecutive year, around 80 per cent of packaged liquor retailers across New South Wales will be forced to shut their doors on Anzac Day — while hotels, clubs, bars, restaurants, and cafes are permitted to trade and sell takeaway alcohol without restriction. That asymmetry is now drawing a formal and increasingly pointed … Read more