Ember Homes, House Factory, Hello Welcome Homes and Norwood Home Design all lead to one company. It has been wound up.

The Supreme Court of Queensland wound up Equity Red Pty Ltd, ACN 647 679 196, on 10 September. Alice Fay Ruhe of The Ruhe Group is liquidator. ASIC published the order on 11 September.

The applicant was WorkCover Queensland, the state's workers' compensation insurer, in proceeding 3758/26. It filed on 7 August. ASIC published the application on 2 September. A hearing was listed for 9:30am on 10 September, and the court made the winding-up order that day, eight days after the application was published. ASIC published the order on 11 September, nine days after.

Four business names are registered against it: Ember Homes, House Factory, Hello Welcome Homes and Norwood Home Design. The company itself was registered in February 2021 and was formerly called Value Homes Pty Ltd. Its registered postcode is 4869, in Far North Queensland.

The name split also appears in council building records. Mareeba Shire's 2023 permit register names Equity Red Pty Ltd as builder on two duplex permits and House Factory as builder on a dual-occupancy permit. In a separate development file, Equity Red is the applicant and named builder while the approved plans carry the House Factory name. Those historical records do not establish that any of those projects is affected by the 2026 liquidation.

None of those five names contains the words Equity Red. A supplier, subcontractor or customer with one of those names in their records may first have to identify the legal company behind the transaction. Where that company is Equity Red Pty Ltd, the relevant identifier is ACN 647 679 196. The liquidator's notice is indexed under the legal name, and so is the court file.

A registered business name tells you a company is entitled to trade under that name. It does not establish that the company was operating under it on any particular day, or that it was the party to any particular contract. That check belongs to whoever holds the paperwork.

We hold no information about how many customers, suppliers or employees are affected, what any of them is owed, or what the company's position was before August. The notices establish an applicant, a proceeding number, a hearing date, an order and a liquidator. They establish nothing about why the company failed.

Nothing here suggests WorkCover Queensland's application was improper or that anyone erred. The notice establishes WorkCover as the applicant. It does not state the amount of its claim or what the claim was for.

The application was on the public record for eight days before the order, and nine before the liquidation notice. It named the same company, the same court and a hearing date that turned out to be the day the company was wound up.

The two notices reached the register at very different speeds, and that is the part worth knowing. WorkCover filed on 7 August and ASIC did not publish the application until 2 September, 26 days later. The court made its order on 10 September and ASIC published that the next day. By the time the application appeared through ASIC, eight days remained before the hearing.

Eight days is a real warning and it is not a long one. Anyone waiting for the liquidation notice got no advance warning from that notice.

That is the ordinary shape of a court liquidation and it is worth saying out loud, because the two notices are indexed separately. A search that finds the September order and stops there misses the August filing, the applicant and the proceeding number. A search that found the application when ASIC published it had eight days before the court acted, and nine before the liquidation notice appeared.

If you are reconciling a ledger against trading names rather than ACNs, this is the kind of case that can cost you. Four names, one company, one ACN, and the identifier appears on none of the four.

The step, if one of those names is in your records: search your ledger for all four business names and the former company name, then check the underlying invoice, contract or account to identify the legal debtor. Where that debtor is Equity Red Pty Ltd, resolve the record to ACN 647 679 196. The liquidator is the authoritative source on the process itself, including whether and when a proof of debt should be lodged. We publish public-record information, not advice.

Ten brands, one restructuring. Academy of Aesthetics Pty Ltd, ACN 654 093 455, carries ten registered business names, more than any other entity on the 11 September register: Barewolf, Barewolf Clinics, The BareZillian Clinics, Madame Wolf, Mr & Mrs Wolf, Menstitute, Bareman Cosmetics, Georjina Wolf, Syzura and Ze'ev. The 11 September notice is an extension of an existing restructuring under Part 5.3B, with a proposal period running to 25 September. Graeme Beattie of Worrells is restructuring practitioner. A Part 5.3B restructuring allows an eligible company to remain under its directors' control while it develops a restructuring plan with a restructuring practitioner. It is not a liquidation and it is not a voluntary administration.

Four companies, one administration, and the brand sits on the fourth. Erin Group Holdings, Erin Living Company, Erin IP and Erin Ops all appointed the same voluntary administrators on 10 September. Andrew Blundell and Simon Cathro of Cathro & Partners are appointed to all four, with proofs and proxies due 21 September. The business name Erin Living is held by Erin IP Pty Ltd, not by the company named Erin Living Company Pty Ltd. Separately, Erin Living Company Pty Ltd is recorded as a former name of Erin Group Holdings, so that exact name resolves to two different ACNs. Both companies are in administration under the same administrators, so the ambiguity does not send a creditor to the wrong process. It does decide which ACN a proof of debt names.

Two applicants, five months apart. ICC Constructions Pty Ltd, trading as ICC Structures, appears on 11 September on a winding-up application brought by Kharty Property Group Pty Ltd. Our corpus holds an earlier application against the same company by Moneytech Finance, filed 16 April and published 11 May. A winding-up application asks a court for an order. It does not mean a company has been wound up, and neither application is recorded here as decided.

Four steel brands, one meeting, and an administration that began last year. OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Limited, ACN 004 651 325, appears on 11 September on a creditors' meeting notice with proofs and proxies due 16 September. Four business names are registered against it: Liberty OneSteel, Liberty Primary Steel, Simec Energy and Simec Mining. The administration itself is dated 19 February 2025. That notice is procedural rather than a new appointment, which is worth separating: a company can generate deadlines for years after the event that put it into a process, and a status field holding only the latest stage will not tell a creditor that a proof is due this week.

Eleven of the eighteen winding-up applications published on 11 September were brought by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation. Two of those eleven companies carry other names in our register. Jacobson, Monteiro & Forge Pty. Ltd. holds Changz Canteen and Fair Feed. Wagley Enterprises Pty. Ltd. holds Boomerang International Educational Services and Wagley Enterprises. In both cases a trading-name-only search can miss the company facing the application. Applications ask a court for an order, and none of the eleven is recorded here as decided.

ASIC published 112 notices covering 107 entities:

A winding-up application asks a court for an order; it does not mean the company has been wound up. A members' voluntary liquidation is ordinarily solvent. 61 deadlines fall out of the day: 22 proof and proxy, 18 hearings, 16 proofs of debt and 5 proposal periods.

These are winding-up applications published on 11 September. An application asks a court for an order. It is not a finding of insolvency, and a hearing can be adjourned, settled or dismissed. One hearing, for BDS Mechanical Repairs Aus Pty Ltd, was listed for 11 September and has now passed; the notice does not record what happened at it.

Four of the eighteen carry registered business names, which is the same problem the lead describes. A trading-name-only search can miss the company facing the application.

The remaining 14 are in the full 11 September register, with the applicant, court and hearing for each.

ASIC published notices dated 11 September 2026 provide the winding-up order, the liquidator, the appointments and the deadlines. The WorkCover Queensland application, proceeding number and hearing date are from the ASIC notice published 2 September 2026. Registration dates, former names and business names are from the ASIC company register and the Australian Business Register.

Practitioner and applicant counts are findings of our captured ASIC-notice corpus, which begins in January 2025, not audited totals.