Archived media releases and briefing papers
Australian Law Reform Commission media releases are posted on this website as soon as they are distrubuted
2007
2007 media releases
- ALRC addresses costly disputes over client legal privilege (26 September 2007 )
- ALRC proposes overhaul of ‘complex and costly’ privacy laws (12 September 2007)
- Review of Australian Privacy law, presentation to media briefing on DP 72 (11 September 2007)
- ALRC proposes a more comprehensive credit reporting regime (12 September 2007)
- ALRC congratulates Justice Kiefel on High Court appointment (3 September 2007)
- Promoting 'a healthy legal culture' the focus of new Australian Academy of Law (17 July 2007)
- Legal privilege controversies prompt ALRC review (23 April 2007)
- Health information and internet privacy top youth privacy concerns (11 April 2007)
- Law reform inquiry to visit Coffs Harbour - Have your say on privacy & health (27 March 2007)
- Law Reformers ask Sydney to ‘have a say’ on business & privacy (15 March 2007)
2006
Media releases
- Timely focus on credit laws: ALRC (12 December 2006)
- Lawyer-client relationships put under ALRC microscope (30 November 2006)
- Computers, biometrics and Gen Y: Is privacy passé? (9 October 2006)
- Support for anti-violence measures, not ‘sedition’: ALRC (13 September 2006)
- Work to live or live to work? ALRC journal reviews 'life, law and leisure' (7 August 2006)
- ‘Same crime, same time’: ALRC calls for consistency in federal sentencing (22 June 2006)
- Telemarketing, information privacy top community concerns (5 June 2006)
- Telemarketing heads list of privacy concerns (2 June 2006)
- National phone-in to probe privacy pitfalls (30 May 2006)
- ‘Sedition’ should go, focus on urging violence: ALRC (29 May 2006)
- International law reformers 'peering over the horizon' (10 April 2006)
- ALRC: Are sedition laws necessary and effective? (20 March 2006)
- Sedition law review must strike a delicate balance: ALRC (2 March 2006)
- Complexity, courtroom games must go in evidence shake-up: ALRC (8 February 2006)
- Protecting privacy in a wired world: new ALRC inquiry (31 January 2006)
Fact sheets
2005
Media releases
- Australia ‘well placed’ to lead world in protecting human genetic information (9 December 2005)
- Better parliamentary procedures required to support law reform: Justice Kirby (1 December 2005)
- Federal sentencing laws need major overhaul (29 November 2005)
- Momentum growing for national evidence law (4 July 2005)
- From Drink Driving to Gene Patents: The ALRC celebrates 30 years (8 June 2005)
- Inadequate federal sentencing laws need reform: ALRC (3 February 2005)
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