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Data Audit Systems counted Queensland traffic in May and June. It is now in restructuring.

Oct 19, 2026

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Data Audit Systems counted Queensland traffic in May and June. It is now in restructuring.

The tax office applied in July to have the company wound up. On 18 October a restructuring practitioner was appointed, and what happened to the court application is not on the public record.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Two companies holding Chess Moving's Brisbane and Toowoomba names are in liquidation. Chess's own website names neither.

Oct 13, 2026

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Two companies holding Chess Moving's Brisbane and Toowoomba names are in liquidation. Chess's own website names neither.

Durant Enterprises, which its notice says trades as Chess Moving Brisbane, and Regional Removals, which holds the Toowoomba name, went into liquidation on 13 October. Chess Moving Australia, which owns the brand, is not on any of the four notices.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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About 200 mining jobs were in limbo. Agile Mining ran the Buzzard mine but didn't hold its lease.

Oct 9, 2026

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About 200 mining jobs were in limbo. Agile Mining ran the Buzzard mine but didn't hold its lease.

Administrators were appointed to Agile Mining Services on 7 October. The lease is held by Central Iron, and at Peak Iron's other mine, YG Group says another company bought the trucks.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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The company currently registered as Master Demolition Group is not in liquidation. Its former name-holder is.

Oct 1, 2026

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The company currently registered as Master Demolition Group is not in liquidation. Its former name-holder is.

ASIC's company data still listed ACN 646 645 481 as Master Demolition Group on 7 July. A new company was registered under the name on 20 July. Seventy-two days later, the old one appointed a liquidator.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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CreativeCubes.Co lists 17 locations. The companies named for two of them are due in court on 7 October.

Sep 30, 2026

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CreativeCubes.Co lists 17 locations. The companies named for two of them are due in court on 7 October.

CreativeCubes.Co’s Carlton and Hawthorn companies face winding-up applications listed for 7 October. The notices identify different applicants, the same address-for-service law firm and the same hearing time; neither states the debt claimed.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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AAF Scaffolding is in administration. Source Scaffolding entered restructuring in 2024 at the same Nerang address.

Sep 29, 2026

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AAF Scaffolding is in administration. Source Scaffolding entered restructuring in 2024 at the same Nerang address.

The companies used the same Nerang address and their notices named the same practitioner. The records reviewed do not establish a corporate or operational relationship between them.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

CNC Components is in liquidation. Its former patent opponent is also in liquidation.

Sep 28, 2026

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CNC Components is in liquidation. Its former patent opponent is also in liquidation.

CNC Components and SCD Remanufactured Vehicles are both in liquidation and have the same liquidator. The public records reviewed do not establish that their insolvencies or estates are connected.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Australian Gasfields is in administration. Three key gas leases reached their recorded end date on 28 September.

Sep 25, 2026

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Australian Gasfields is in administration. Three key gas leases reached their recorded end date on 28 September.

Three leases covering more than half of the gas reserves Australian Gasfields reported at the end of 2022 reached their recorded end date on 28 September. Its parent says the company had been unable to renew them. Assets previously put up for sale are carried at nil in the parent’s latest unaudited accounts, while a US$6.4 million rehabilitation provision remains.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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The former Track Protection Australia company is in administration. Another entity registered the name that day.

Sep 24, 2026

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The former Track Protection Australia company is in administration. Another entity registered the name that day.

The registering entity had held an active ABN for 15 months. How the current Track Protection Australia operation relates to the entities is not public.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Raptis reported $91 million in revenue. Administrators found $35 in its bank accounts.

Sep 23, 2026

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Raptis reported $91 million in revenue. Administrators found $35 in its bank accounts.

Administrators expect 230 trade creditors to receive nothing. A supplier searching only for "Raptis" could also miss two of the seven companies in the group.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Company Identity

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The fertiliser name disappeared. The company did not.

Sep 22, 2026

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The fertiliser name disappeared. The company did not.

International Raw Materials went into court liquidation on 22 September. Follow its Kwinana address backwards and you reach 21 years of fertiliser records, and a company that looks like it no longer exists until you stop searching by name.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

First NAB. Then CBA. Now PACCAR Financial.

Sep 21, 2026

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First NAB. Then CBA. Now PACCAR Financial.

PACCAR Financial is asking a court to wind up a transport operator after NAB and CBA had already appeared in controller events. The public trail opened with a fuel supplier 557 days before PACCAR filed.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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Woolworths wants two companies tied to King's Farms wound up. The farm is bigger than either one.

Sep 18, 2026

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Woolworths wants two companies tied to King's Farms wound up. The farm is bigger than either one.

The Katherine operation says it grows more than 5.5 million mangoes a year. Woolworths has filed against two companies connected to it, one lost its PALM approval weeks earlier, and other entities still sit outside both applications.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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A manufacturer that grew to more than 100 staff has entered administration. But the BB Truss name does not sit on one legal entity.

Sep 17, 2026

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A manufacturer that grew to more than 100 staff has entered administration. But the BB Truss name does not sit on one legal entity.

B B Truss & Timber grew to more than 100 staff across three Victorian locations, with a 6,000 square metre automated factory and an expanding structural-steel operation. Two companies connected to the business are now in administration, and the public records do not make clear where the operating business legally sits.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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The Tax Office ordered Hudson's financier to send it 20 cents from every dollar Hudson drew. Three weeks later, Hudson was in administration.

Sep 16, 2026

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The Tax Office ordered Hudson's financier to send it 20 cents from every dollar Hudson drew. Three weeks later, Hudson was in administration.

Hudson Global Resources appears across more than 6,400 Commonwealth contracts since 2005, worth about A$974 million, 201 of them with contracted end dates beyond the day creditors wound it up. But the company depended on turning unpaid invoices into cash early to keep operating, and the Tax Office reached directly into that funding line.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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Norcliffe advertises 73 rigs and $346 million of projects. Eight companies behind that business are in administration.

Sep 15, 2026

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Norcliffe advertises 73 rigs and $346 million of projects. Eight companies behind that business are in administration.

A completed job is still listed as current, newer work is missing, and Norcliffe's last accounts show a fleet built heavily on equipment finance. The administrators now have to establish what is actually left inside the eight companies.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Derwent looks like one manufacturing group. Two companies inside it are now in administration.

Sep 14, 2026

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Derwent looks like one manufacturing group. Two companies inside it are now in administration.

Keech Castings, Kawandah Clamps and Derwent Foundry resolve to Derwent Industries Pty Ltd. AVFI is another company and entered administration the same day, on the same notice. Mackay Australia shares the group's website and head office, but sits behind a third ACN and is not named in the appointments.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

WorkCover Queensland applied to wind up Equity Red Pty Ltd in August. ASIC published the application eight days before the court made the order. None of the four home-building names appears in the company's legal name.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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Nova Institute of Technology closed. Its company is in liquidation and administration at the same time

Sep 10, 2026

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Nova Institute of Technology closed. Its company is in liquidation and administration at the same time

Creditors were asked to authorise one legal route for appointing administrators. ASIC later recorded a different one, on a notice that says the company is still in liquidation. On the same day, the skills regulator cancelled the college's registration without its consent.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Company Identity

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Three government registers disagree about the Raine & Horne company facing a tax winding-up application

Sep 9, 2026

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Three government registers disagree about the Raine & Horne company facing a tax winding-up application

ASIC calls it A.C.N. 129 296 475 Pty Ltd. The Business Register says its best-known Raine & Horne name moved to another company in May. NSW Fair Trading still calls it Anstee Real Estate Pty Ltd and still licenses it under that name until 2027.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Macarthur Energy Pty Ltd is in liquidation. The authorised electricity retailer is a different company.

Sep 8, 2026

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Macarthur Energy Pty Ltd is in liquidation. The authorised electricity retailer is a different company.

The company in liquidation holds thirteen business names, including Macarthur Energy and Macarthur Solar. Its published electricity contract names no legal company at all. AEMO and the Australian Energy Regulator both point to Macarthur Energy Retail Pty Ltd, ACN 643 524 921.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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In 2025 Scott Pickett's restaurant entities were outside the administration. On 7 September, companies carrying their names appointed the same administrator.

Sep 7, 2026

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In 2025 Scott Pickett's restaurant entities were outside the administration. On 7 September, companies carrying their names appointed the same administrator.

Six companies appointed Manuel Hanna on 7 September. Three still carry the registered business names Matilda 159 Domain, Longrain Melbourne and Smith St Bistrot. At Chancery Lane, the liquor register identifies one company while current property material names another as tenant.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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Eleven Adelaide hospitality companies entered insolvency on one day. The public record behind them starts in 2007.

Sep 4, 2026

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Eleven Adelaide hospitality companies entered insolvency on one day. The public record behind them starts in 2007.

Seven companies appointed administrators together on 3 September. Four more resolved to wind up on separate notices the same day. The notices name none of the restaurants, and government records trace several of those restaurant identities back through a family trust and its trustee company for nearly twenty years.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Two Sky Energy companies are in administration. Their brand's 2023 warranty names two others: one wound up, one renamed.

Sep 3, 2026

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Two Sky Energy companies are in administration. Their brand's 2023 warranty names two others: one wound up, one renamed.

Sky Energy Investments and Sky Energy Production appointed administrators on 1 September. Neither existed when the brand says it was founded in 2019. The SkyBox warranty still on the brand's website names Sky Energy Group Pty Ltd, wound up in April 2024, and Sky Energy Pty Ltd, since renamed Enerbyte. Another Sky Energy company registered the same day as Investments has no notice. A Western Australian senator's register of interests lists shares in Investments.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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The company behind the architect North Sydney Council sued over its $122m pool is in liquidation

Sep 2, 2026

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The company behind the architect North Sydney Council sued over its $122m pool is in liquidation

Brewster Hjorth Pty. Limited, the corporate trustee behind Brewster Hjorth Architects, resolved to wind up on 1 September, 25 days after North Sydney Olympic Pool reopened. The council's proceedings against the company were with the Supreme Court as at March. A March statement attributed to a second council said changes to Brewster Hjorth designs added $3.5m and nine months to another project.

Nathan Wong
Nathan Wong

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