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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

Company Identity

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

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

Daily Register

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

Daily Register

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

Daily Register

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

Daily Register

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

Daily Register

Candlefox is back in administration. This time it's the company behind training.com.au.

Sep 1, 2026

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Candlefox is back in administration. This time it's the company behind training.com.au.

Two Candlefox-named companies entered administration in July 2022. The company now behind training.com.au did not exist yet. It was registered a month later, during that process. The same two administrators are back.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Morris Finance filed 11 winding-up applications in one day. Its previous high was four.

Aug 31, 2026

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Morris Finance filed 11 winding-up applications in one day. Its previous high was four.

That is across 20 months of captured ASIC notices. The eleven sit inside a day where 18 of 33 winding-up applications came from four commercial lenders, and the notices don't say what triggered the burst.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

VentureCrowd Holdings is in liquidation. Now it is applying to wind up four more companies

Aug 30, 2026

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VentureCrowd Holdings is in liquidation. Now it is applying to wind up four more companies

One is VentureCrowd Nominees, which VentureCrowd's own material identified as trustee for its wholesale managed investment schemes. All four applications are listed for the same hearing on the morning of 31 August.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Edge Early Learning: 44 companies enter administration — matching its 2021 accounts

Aug 27, 2026

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Edge Early Learning: 44 companies enter administration — matching its 2021 accounts

The numbers match. The operating map does not. The childcare register maps 31 provider entities operating 65 services, five centre-named companies point to a different current provider, and 81% of the group's 2021 liabilities were leases.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

542 companies including Universal Property Group account for 90% of the 26 August register's new distress

Aug 26, 2026

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542 companies including Universal Property Group account for 90% of the 26 August register's new distress

542 companies. The same appointment date. The same five administrators. Six registered UPG companies sit outside the 542, six ACNs printed on the notices do not match the companies they name, and planning records turn numbered vehicles into identified development sites.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Aboriginal Enterprises Australia (WA) followed its NT counterpart into administration 45 days later

Aug 25, 2026

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Aboriginal Enterprises Australia (WA) followed its NT counterpart into administration 45 days later

Both appointments were made by each company's own directors, and both name the same two administrators. Also on the 25 August register: provisional liquidators were appointed to twelve companies, seven of them carrying the Great Northern name.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Four Mitsuki companies entered liquidation. The newest one entered restructuring.

Aug 24, 2026

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Four Mitsuki companies entered liquidation. The newest one entered restructuring.

Five companies carrying the Mitsuki name were all appointed on 21 August, with the same two practitioners. The four registered between 2021 and 2023 are in liquidation. The one registered in 2024 is being restructured.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Global Food & Wine's appointment notice covers five companies. Only three carry the name.

Aug 24, 2026

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Global Food & Wine's appointment notice covers five companies. Only three carry the name.

One ASIC notice named all five and the same three administrators. Globello Pty Ltd was Global Food & Wine (Northgate) until 2023. The public record reviewed does not explain GHO Pty Ltd's relationship to the other four.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Aug 20, 2026

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Drink West split its brand from its brewery. The brewery company has now been wound up.

Drink West's 2022 crowd-funding document said Drink West Pty Ltd held the brand and the intellectual property, while its wholly owned brewery subsidiary owned the brewing equipment, raw materials and stock. That brewery company was wound up by the court on 18 August.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

VentureCrowd marketed two investor products tied to this company. On 18 August it was wound up.

Aug 19, 2026

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VentureCrowd marketed two investor products tied to this company. On 18 August it was wound up.

The winding-up application was public 15 days before the order. VentureCrowd's own material identifies the same ACN as its shared-services entity and as the company connected to two investor offers.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Mirrors Care is wound up 11 days after appointing voluntary administrators

Aug 18, 2026

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Mirrors Care is wound up 11 days after appointing voluntary administrators

The Rockingham NDIS provider, also known as Sandpit Community Care and Mirrors WA, had been facing an ATO winding-up application since May. The NDIS Commission currently lists it as approved across six WA outlets.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Family Farm Management enters administration. More than 125 investors put more than $6 million into the Mt Lion Farm arrangement.

Aug 17, 2026

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Family Farm Management enters administration. More than 125 investors put more than $6 million into the Mt Lion Farm arrangement.

A Federal Court judgment says investors' fractional interests are recorded on a private register that has no formal status in recording land title. Family Farm Management, which entered administration on 14 August, is the registered owner of the farmland.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Westwood Capital is wound up three weeks after losing its appeal over a $5.59 million liability

Aug 14, 2026

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Westwood Capital is wound up three weeks after losing its appeal over a $5.59 million liability

Council records the company as an owner of land within a 375-home proposal now on public exhibition. Court records trace its interest in the former Club Punchbowl site from a $26 million option to a $100 million sale contract later found uncommercial and voidable.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

WA Kaolin enters administration 86 days after $16.1 million recapitalisation

Aug 13, 2026

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WA Kaolin enters administration 86 days after $16.1 million recapitalisation

WA Kaolin's May recapitalisation converted $10.13 million of creditor claims into shares. The two lenders holding security over every asset converted nothing, leaving their secured loans outside the conversion.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Provide Capital enters liquidation. Its ASIC document dispute reached the High Court in 2024.

Aug 12, 2026

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Provide Capital enters liquidation. Its ASIC document dispute reached the High Court in 2024.

Provide Nominees Pty Ltd, the company trading as Provide Capital, went into court liquidation on 12 August. The Federal Court record describes a fixed-interest lending model involving investors, while ASIC's last public update said its investigation was continuing.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Western United lost its A-League place. The company behind it was wound up the next day.

Aug 11, 2026

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Western United lost its A-League place. The company behind it was wound up the next day.

WMG Football Club Ltd was wound up by the Federal Court on 11 August. Five days earlier, another company carrying the WMG name entered voluntary administration. Both had already faced creditor winding-up applications.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

Your invoice says Empire Hotel Opco. Which company do you search?

Aug 10, 2026

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Your invoice says Empire Hotel Opco. Which company do you search?

Eighteen companies behind the Public Hospitality Group venues moved from administration into liquidation on 7 August. The obvious Empire match is the wrong ACN.

Nathan Wong

Retail & Ecommerce

Proud Poppy told customers it is still trading. The same week, creditors got a deadline.

Aug 10, 2026

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Proud Poppy told customers it is still trading. The same week, creditors got a deadline.

Both are true, and they are different documents. The administration notice sets 14 August for proofs of debt and 17 August for the first meeting, and it is the one with dates in it.

Nathan Wong

Daily Register

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Candlefox is back in administration. This time it's the company behind training.com.au.

Morris Finance filed 11 winding-up applications in one day. Its previous high was four.

VentureCrowd Holdings is in liquidation. Now it is applying to wind up four more companies

Edge Early Learning: 44 companies enter administration — matching its 2021 accounts

542 companies including Universal Property Group account for 90% of the 26 August register's new distress

Aboriginal Enterprises Australia (WA) followed its NT counterpart into administration 45 days later

Four Mitsuki companies entered liquidation. The newest one entered restructuring.

Global Food & Wine's appointment notice covers five companies. Only three carry the name.

Drink West split its brand from its brewery. The brewery company has now been wound up.

VentureCrowd marketed two investor products tied to this company. On 18 August it was wound up.

Mirrors Care is wound up 11 days after appointing voluntary administrators

Family Farm Management enters administration. More than 125 investors put more than $6 million into the Mt Lion Farm arrangement.

Westwood Capital is wound up three weeks after losing its appeal over a $5.59 million liability

WA Kaolin enters administration 86 days after $16.1 million recapitalisation

Provide Capital enters liquidation. Its ASIC document dispute reached the High Court in 2024.

Western United lost its A-League place. The company behind it was wound up the next day.

Your invoice says Empire Hotel Opco. Which company do you search?

Proud Poppy told customers it is still trading. The same week, creditors got a deadline.

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