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15.09.2014
Freedoms Inquiry Wiki – Catalogue of Australian Commonwealth laws that limit or encroach upon traditional rights, freedoms and privileges
For its Freedoms Inquiry, the ALRC is creating a catalogue of Australian Commonwealth laws that limit or encroach upon—whether justifiably or not—traditional rights, freedoms and privileges. We invite you to contribute to the catalogue using our online wiki.InstructionsTo contribute, please add relevant laws to the tables we have created. There is a separate page for …
Read more03.09.2014
Report into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era released
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report, Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (Report 123, 2014) was tabled in Parliament today and is now publicly available.The Terms of Reference for this Inquiry, required the ALRC to design a tort to deal with serious invasions of privacy in the digital era. In this Report, …
Read more03.09.2014
Final report tabled today!
Today our Final Report, Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (Report 123) was tabled in Parliament. It is now publicly available.The Report and a Summary Report is available to freely download or purchase in hard copy from the ALRC website. The Report is also freely available as an ebook.ALRC recommendations do not automatically become law. The Australian Government decides whether to implement the …
Read more21.08.2014
Freedoms enews | Issue 2
Issue 2 | 21 August 2014 View original formatReview of Commonwealth Laws for Consistency with Traditional Rights, Freedoms and PrivilegesWith the start of this Inquiry—‘the Freedoms Inquiry’—the ALRC has two substantial tasks ahead of it. The first is to identify Commonwealth laws that encroach on traditional rights, freedoms and privileges. The second is to determine whether these …
Read more07.08.2014
AHRC Free Speech Conference 2014
Thursday 7 August 2014, Professor Rosalind Croucher President, Australian law Reform Commission [1] TextIntroduction[Acknowledgement of country—Gadigal and Guring-gai people of the Eora Nation.]I have been asked to speak today on the ALRC’s newest inquiry. The Attorney-General, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC, has presented us with a wonderful project. It has two main tasks.The first is to identify Commonwealth laws that …
Read more30.06.2014
Native Title – Issue 5 – June 2014
Issue 5 | 30 June 2014. View original formatThank you!We’d like to thank all the individuals and organisations who made submissions in response to the Issues Paper. They represent a valuable contribution to this Inquiry and will help us further develop our thinking as we work towards a Discussion Paper. We received over 35 submissions, and these are available for …
Read more03.06.2014
Review of the Native Title Act 1993
AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Living with Native Title from the Bush to the Sea, Coffs Harbour NSW, June 2014 Introduction I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the bush and the sea, the Gumbaynggirr people, and pay my respects to their elders past and present; and to the elders of other Aboriginal peoples and Torres …
Read more23.05.2014
Freedoms enews | Issue 1 | Terms of Reference
Issue 1, 23 May 2013 Terms of Reference received Welcome to the first enews for the Review of Commonwealth Laws for Consistency with Traditional Rights, Freedoms and Privileges—we’ll be referring to it as the ‘Freedoms Inquiry’. Attorney-General, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC,announced this Inquiry in December 2013 and released draft Terms of Reference at that time. …
Read more22.05.2014
Disability enews | Issue 8 | Discussion Paper released!
Issue 8 | 22 May 2014. View original format.Discussion Paper released!We are pleased to announce the release of the Discussion Paper for this Inquiry, Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws (DP 81). The Discussion Paper provides a detailed account of ALRC research so far, and includes more than 50 proposals and a number of questions for people to consider and provide feedback on.The Discussion Paper …
Read more22.05.2014
ALRC seeks input into the Disability and Commonwealth Laws Inquiry
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released the final consultation paper in its inquiry into disability and Commonwealth laws, Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws (DP 81).The Discussion Paper presents over 50 proposals for reform of Commonwealth laws and legal frameworks to better provide people with disability equal recognition before the law—in particular, …
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