ALRC in the media – 2016

The ALRC monitors the media for references to the Commission and its inquiries. This list is not comprehensive. ALRC in the Media archives are available from 2009.

• Tinder, Facebook images of children putting them at risk, authorities war | ABC News – 29 December 2016
• Productivity Commission lays out final report to much dismay | ArtsHub Australia – 27 December 2016
• Australia Should Extend Safe Harbor to All Online Service Providers, Commission Says | The Whir – 23 December 2016
• Media Microscope: The ABCs of 18C | Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council – 23 December 2016
• Productivity Commission recommends fair use exception to copyright infringement – creators oppose it | Lexology – 21 December 2016
• The Australia Day debate; Us and Them | National Indigenous Times – 21 December 2016
• Productivity Commission lays out final report to much dismay | ArtsHub Australia – 20 December 2016
• Universities Australia backs calls for fairer copyright laws | Universities Australia – 20 December 2016
• Dump innovation patents and apply safe harbour to all online services: Productivity Commission | ZDNet – 20 December 2016
• Intellectual Property: Copyright rules make us break the law 80 times a day, says Productivity Commission | SMH – 20 December 2016
• FSC commends ambitious reforms to address elder abuse | Professional Planner – 19 December 2016
• SMSFs targeted in proposed reforms for elder abuse | SMSF Adviser – 19 December 2016
• Opinion: Elder abuse up there with domestic violence | The Courier-Mail – 18 December 2016
• More evidence needed on abuse reporting before adopting proposed changes: providers | Australian Ageing Agenda – 16 December 2016
• Elder abuse – inquiry into the laws protecting vulnerable older Australians | Partyline – 16 December 2016
• Elder abuse discussion paper sheds light on hidden problem | Aged Care Guide – 15 December 2016
• Linking headlines: post-truth, euthanasia and elder abuse | MercatorNet – 15 December 2016
• Elder Abuse: Discussion Paper | Australian Policy Online – 15 December 2016
• LCA urges intervention in ‘growing’ elder abuse | Lawyers Weekly – 15 December 2016
• More police powers for family violence | PS News – 13 December 2016
• Law reform commission calls for overhaul of mandatory reporting of assaults in aged care | Australian Ageing Agenda – 13 December 2016
• Difficult conversations needed to agree actions to help end abuse of older Australians | COTA Australia – 12 December 2016
• Law Reform Commission’s elder abuse inquiry proposes compensation payments | SMH – 12 December 2016
• Money News | 2GB radio – 12 December 2016
• Column 8 | Brisbane Times – 12 December 2016
• New recommendations to prevent financial elder abuse in Victoria | Everyday-Law – 12 December
• Welcome proposals to help combat elder abuse | Alzheimer’s Australia – 12 December 2016
• Recommendations for reform of elder abuse laws need serious consideration | Law Council of Australia – 12 December 2016
• More protection needed for vulnerable elderly people | Your Life Choices – 12 December 2016
• Elder abuse inquiry calls for power of attorney changes to stop children ripping parents off | ABC Radio National – 11 December 2016
• Elder abuse inquiry calls for power of attorney changes to stop children ripping parents off | ABC Radio Australia – 11 December 2016
• Stop children stealing from elderly parents using power of attorney | The Age – 11 December 2016
• Power of attorney laws a ‘licence to steal’ and should be reformed, report says | The Guardian – 11 December 2016
• Stop children stealing from elderly parents using power of attorney, Law Reform Commission says | SMH – 11 December 2016
• ‘Elder abuse is where domestic violence was 20 years ago’: report | The New Daily – 11 December 2016
• Who’s listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app | The Conversation – 9 December 2016
• Indigenous incarceration rates ‘intolerable’ and momentum for change ‘lost long ago’ | ABC News Breakfast – 5 December 2016
• ABA welcomes consultation process for ALRC examination into Indigenous incarceration | Australian Bar Association – 5 December 2016
• Aussie Celebrities Join Campaign to Oppose Fair Use  | TorrentFreak – 5 December 2016
• Elder Law Review: Vol 10  | Western Sydney University – 1 December 2016
• Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia’s IP laws | The Conversation – 30 November 2016
• Justice Kiefel’s appointment a sign of changing times, say women lawyers | Australian Lawyer – 30 November 2016
• First female Chief Justice appointed | Sky News – 29 November 2016
• LCA urges action on ‘catastrophic’ imprisonment rate | Lawyers Weekly – 22 November 2016
• Tammy Davis-Charles: Australian nurse arrested in Cambodia for surrogacy clinic | News.com – 21 November 2016
• Warren Mundine: It’s time to tackle indigenous crime | AdelaideNow – 18 November 2016
• Stan Grant: ‘Can an Aborigine be a Smiths fan? I can be whatever I damn like’ | SMH – 18 November 2016
• 18C must be fine-tuned to allow for cultural differences, says inquiry chair | The Guardian – 18 November 2016
• Trailblazers must lead because not all the reports & inquiries compiled will reduce Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicides, child removals & incarceration | The Stringer – 11 November 2016
• Legal Affairs: What’s wrong with section 18C? | The Australian – 11 November 2016
• ALRC demolishes most arguments backing 18C | The Australian – 11 November 2016
• 18c – another law to divide both black and white | National Indigenous Times – 9 November 2016
• Judge urges curbs on indigenous jailings | The Australian – 8 November 2016
• ‘Nothing ever happens’: why Indigenous leaders are angry at latest round of inquiries | ABC News – 4 November 2016
• Revenge porn: Is it time for a statutory privacy tort? | Law Institute of Victoria  – 1 November 2016
• Legal bodies welcome Indigenous incarceration inquiry | Lawyers Weekly – 1 November 2016
• Is It Legal To Refuse A Paternity Test? | Lifehacker Australia – 31 October 2016
• Turnbull freezes out his indigenous advisor | Herald Sun – 31 October 2016
• Indigenous incarceration: Too little action on national disgrace | SMH – 31 October 2016
• The treatment of Aboriginal people is our great collective continuing shame | The Age – 29 October 2016
• Indigenous incarceration inquiry ‘a national priority’ – ABA | Australasian Lawyer – 28 October 2016
• Aboriginal and non-indigenous relationship has deteriorated: Pat D | The West Australian – 28 October 2016
• The Australian Law Reform Commission to review indigenous incarceration rates | RN Drive – 27 October 2016
• Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment must focus on solutions | Change the Record – 27 October 2016
• Govt Sets Up Inquiry Into Incarceration Rate of Indigenous Australian | Pro Bono Australia – 27 October 2016
• NT’s mandatory sentencing could be scrapped | Skynews – 27 October 2016
• Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: Brandis | Perth Now  – 27 October 2016
• Federal Government calls inquiry into high Aboriginal prison rates | The West Australian – 27 October 2016
• Indigenous incarceration inquiry announced by George Brandis, Nigel Scullion | ABC News  – 27 October 2016
• ALRC Indigenous incarceration inquiry a vital step in addressing this national catastrophe | Law Council of Australia  – 27 October 2016
• QLS backs inquiry into appallingly high Indigenous detention rates | Queensland Law Society  – 27 October 2016
• George Brandis announces inquiry into Indigenous incarceration rates | SMH  – 27 October 2016
• Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: Brandis | SBS News  – 27 October 2016
• New Inquiry Into ‘Shocking’ Indigenous Incarceration Rates | Huffington Post  – 27 October 2016
• New inquiry into indigenous incarceration | News.com  – 27 October 2016
• “ALRC examination into indigenous incarceration rates is a national priority” says ABA President  | Australian Bar Association  – 27 October 2016
• New inquiry into indigenous incarceration  | SBS News – 27 October 2016
• Majority opposes 18C case against QUT students, says Newspoll | The Australian – 26 October 2016
• Australia will breach TPP without safe harbour provisions: Copyright Group | ZDNet – 18 October 2016
• Drone Use in Australia: What are the Privacy and Copyright Issues? | Lexology – 29 September 2016
• New drone rules: With more eyes in the sky, expect less privacy  | Computerworld – 29 September 2016
• Equal before the law? How the criminal justice system is failing people with disability  | Australian Human Rights Commission – 27 September 2016
• Financial elder abuse: Carer accused of stealing $1.2m from bank account of Victorian man  | RN – ABC News – 27 September 2016
• Australia leads the way in drone regulation  | Lawyers Weekly – 21 September 2016
• ALRC president calls to enliven ‘rights-minded’ lawyers  | Lawyers Weekly – 20 September 2016
• Stephen Conroy, a man of [f]action  | InnovationAus.com – 19 September 2016
• Press Council ruling against Courier-Mail beyond its own tenet | The Australian – 12 September 2016
• Opinion: Queensland University of Technology to divest ­itself of shares in coal, oil and gas | The Courier-Mail – 9 September 2016
• NSW govt to introduce ‘revenge porn’ law | Computerworld – 6 September 2016
• Anti-whistleblower tactics move us into dangerous era of secrecy | The Australian – 5 September 2016
• Robert French speech indicates he’s lukewarm on 18C | The Australian – 2 September 2016
• Judges to draw on new guide for family and domestic violence | Lawyers Weekly – 1 September 2016
• Family violence offenders face spouse visa block under new Australian laws | Herald Sun – 30 August 2016 
• Revising the Racial Discrimination Act | On Line Opinion – 30 August 2016
• Courts get guidance on family violence | PS News – 23 August 2016
• New resource to assist victims of family violence | A-G media release – 18 August 2016
• Is It Legal To Play Retro Game ROMs On Emulators? | Lifehacker Australia – 15 August 2016
• Burt MP may support use of CCTV in aged care homes but warns it could cause problems | Community News Group – 4 August 2016
• Swan MHR Irons says CCTV ‘not answer’ to elder abuse | Community News Group – 1 August 2016
• School is not always a safe place for students with disability – this has to change | The Conversation – 28 July 2016
• Drone usage and related legal work reach new heights | Lawyers Weekly – 25 July 2016
• Getting Baby Back | SMH – 25 July 2016
• The case for fair use in New Zealand | International Journal of Law & Info Technology – July 2016
• It’s time to end elder abuse | Alzheimer’s Australia – 11 July 2016
• New South Wales to lead on privacy protection | Right Now – 5 July 2016
• Political Databases: where privacy goes to die | Government News – 5 July 2016
• Paddington couple welcome surrogate twins | Daily Telegraph – 30 June 2016
• EFA calls on major parties to support copyright reform | Sunshine Coast – 30 June 2016
• Elder Abuse and Law Reform | FECCA – June 2016
• Human rights failures say a lot about our government | The Age – 23 June 2016
• Law Reform Commission flags mandatory financial abuse reporting | Banking Day – 23 June 2016
• Law reforms to look after elderly | PS News – 21 June 2016
• Raising awareness to prevent elder abuse | DPS News – 20 June 2016
• Ending elder abuse a must | The Border Mail – 18 June 2016
• Tradies payments guarantee | Sunshine Coast – 17 June 2016
• There is no excuse for abuse | Alzheimer’s Australia – 15 June 2016
• Arvos | ABC Radio – Darwin and Alice Springs – 15 June 2016
• Another chapter of the Google Books Copyright dispute – does the US Supreme Court decision affect Australia? | Lexecology – 15 June 2016
• Elder abuse national crisis – more work to be done | The Senior – 15 June 2016
• Elder abuse inquiry probes restraints, mandatory reporting of alleged assaults | Australian Ageing Agenda – 15 June 2016
• Australia’s ‘hidden issue’: call out for people who have experienced elder abuse | Canberra Times – 15 June 2016
• Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short | The Conversation – 10 June 2016
• Why Australia won’t recognise Indigenous customary law | The Conversation – 10 June 2016
• From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo | The Conversation – 10 June 2016
• Our public institutions need fair use laws | The Age – 8 June 2016
• $30 levy sets new territory on domestic violence | The Australian – 8 June 2016
• Weasel words disguise true nature of superannuation changes | The Age  – 7 June 2016
• ACT budget 2016: Barr government commits $21 million for family violence reforms | Canberra Times – 7 June 2016
• Dr Annabelle Bennett, Bond Uni chancellor | GoldCoastBulletin – 30 May 2016
• Coalition promises not to reduce copyright term | ArtsHub Australia – 25 May 2016
• ALRC Freedoms Inquiry: Implications for migration law | Olay Legal – 24 May 2016
• Labor staffer could be jailed merely for receiving NBN docs | Delimiter – 24 May 2016
• Media Watch: Secrecy laws here to stay? – ABC TV – 23 May 2016
• Good for lawyers, bad for creators | ArtsHub Australia – 23 May 2016
• The NBN’s Police Witch Hunt Highlights The Need To Scrap Australia’s Draconian Leaking Laws | Gizmodo Australia – 17 May 2016 
• Greens promise to end religious exemptions to Sex Discrimination Act | The Guardian – 17 May 2016
• Australian Court Stops Class Action from Obtaining U.S. Courts’ Assistance for Oral Depositions | Jones Day – 17 May 2016
• The fallout from the $500,000 lifetime NCC cap | SMSF Advisor  – 11 May 2016
• New Commonwealth DPP and Commissioners appointed | Lawyers Weekly – 9 May 2016
• Copyright law in Australia – major changes recommended by the Productivity Commission | Lexology – 5 May 2016
• Australia needs to future-proof its copyright laws to truly embrace innovation and attract global startups | StartupSmart – 5 May 2016
• It’s time to future-proof Australia’s copyright laws for the 21st century | The Conversation – 5 May 2016
• Australian Gov’t Commission: Copyright Is Copywrong; Hurting The Public And Needs To Be Fixed | Techdirt – 2 May 2016
• Former High Court judge Michael Kirby calls for urgent reform of privacy laws | SMH – 2 May 2016
• Foxtel hits out at proposed copyright reforms | AFR – 2 May 2016
• Productivity Commission calls for free import of books, copyright shake-up | SMH – 29 April 2016
• Productivity Commission recommends fairer copyright laws | Universities Australia – 29 April 2016
• The Productivity Commission’s hands were tied on copyright | SMH – 29 April 2016
• Australia should legalise content geododging | Australian Computer Society – 29 April 2016
• X18+ rating too limiting: adult retailers | 9news.com.au – 22 April 2016
• Labor slams Govt over personal data breach notifications | Delimiter – 22 April 2016
• Copyright Experts: Fair Use is Not Getting a Fair Deal in Australia | Electronic Frontier Foundation – 18 April 2016
• Dozens of laws require revision: Law Reform Commission | The Australian – 5 April 2016
• Faster erosion of rights ‘threat to rule of law’ | The Australian – 5 April 2016
• Patenting human genes was always a bad idea, now it’s history | Cosmos – 5 April 2016
• Australian Lawyers And Scholars Are Encouraging Civil Disobedience In This Year’s Census | Gizmodo Australia – 23 March 2016
• ALRC and fundamental freedoms | Catholic Talk – 22 March 2016
• A statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy on the way for New South Wales? | Clayton Utz – 17 March 2016
• ALRC Freedoms Inquiry: Implications for migration law | ANU Migration Law Program – 16 March 2016
• Free program educating on elder abuse | DPS News – 15 March 2016
• Hazem El Masri case shows Australia has a problem with innocent until proven guilty | The Age – 15 March 2016
• The new frontier in assaults on privacy and what the law is – or isn’t – doing about it | The Guardian – 9 March 2016
• Human rights: Laws that curb liberty must be monitored | The Age – 9 March 2016
• Fool’s gold | The Spectator – 9 March 2016
• It’s time for a ‘new national conversation’ on elder abuse | Australian Ageing Agenda – 9 March 2016
• Government’s innovation agenda undermined by its own proposed copyright reforms | SMH – 9 March 2016
• George Brandis was never going to get what he wanted from his ‘freedoms’ inquiry | The Conversation – 9 March 2016
• Australian migration agents call for review of migration laws | Australia Forum – 8 March 2016
• The ALRC’s Freedoms Inquiry – Time for a ‘War’ on Rights Encroachments? | Castan Centre for Human Rights Law – 8 March 2016
• NSW pushes for further privacy reform | Lexology – 8 March 2016
• Resigned in heartbreak and frustration | Milton Ulladulla Times – 7 March 2016
• Google expands the ‘right to be forgotten’, but Australia doesn’t need it | The Conversation – 7 March 2016
• Commonwealth laws encroaching on freedom | Lawyers Weekly – 7 March 2016
• Elder financial abuse | 2GB – 6 March 2016
• Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Elder Abuse | Library Boy – 6 March 2016
• Australian Agenda | Sky News podcast (transcript) – 6 March 2016
• Time ripe for challenge to 18C | The Australian – 4 March 2016
• Brandis’ ‘Bolt Report’ Backfires, Highlighting Threat Of Anti-Terror And Refugee Laws | New Matilda – 4 March 2016
• Brandis may intervene when High Court hears race act’s validity | The Australian – 4 March 2016
• NSW mulls privacy invasion laws | The Register – 3 March 2016
• NSW Parliamentary Committee recommends right to sue for serious breaches of privacy | Lexology – 3 March 2016
• ACL freedom of speech concerns reflected in new ALRC report | Australian Christian Lobby – 3 March 2016
• NSW may become first state to introduce laws for invasions of privacy | Sydney Morning Herald – 3 March 2016
• Gentle critique sets bar low but it might just work | The Australian – 3 March 2016
• Law reform commission wants section 18C of race act reviewed | The Australian – 3 March 2016
• Offence’ under section 18C is a provision too broad | The Australian – 3 March 2016
• New report a ‘wake-up call’ on the state of rights and freedoms in Australia | Cowra Guardian – 2 March 2016
• Australia should separate religious and civil weddings, report finds | The Guardian – 2 March 2016
• Law Reform Commission report a wake up call to restore basic rights and freedoms in Australia  | Human Rights Law Centre – 2 March 2016
• Creative community rallies against planned copyright law changes | The Australian – 2 March 2016
• Turnbull government must act on Law Reform Commission ‘freedoms’ report | Institute of Public Affairs Australia – 2 March 2016
• ALRC Freedoms Inquiry on Religious Freedom – Part 1 | Law and Religion Australia – 2 March 2016
• Address at the launch of the Australian Law Reform Commission Report on Traditional Rights and Freedoms | Attorney-General for Australia – 2 March 2016
• Palaszczuk Govt takes action on protecting seniors from financial abuse | My Sunshine Coast – 1 March 2016
• To believe or not to believe: child witnesses and the sex abuse royal commission | The Conversation – 1 March 2016
• Gadfly: Puzzle resolution | The Saturday Paper – 27 February 2016
• Legal inquiry welcome, but national elder abuse strategy needed: Commissioner | Australian Ageing Agenda – 26 February 2016
• Law Reformers to protect elderly | PS News – 26 February 2016
• The internet will soon know more about you than you think | AdelaideNow – 26 February 2016
• FSC welcomes elder abuse inquiry | Professional Planner – 25 February 2016
• Australian Law Reform Commission Begins Inquiry Into Elder Abuse | TimeBase – 25 February 2016
• Older Australians More Likely to Be Abused | Australia Network News – 25 February 2016
• FSC welcomes elder abuse inquiry | Money Management – 25 February 2016
• Explainer: what is elder abuse and why do we need a national inquiry into it? | The Conversation – 25 February 2016
• Elders with assets ‘groomed like child-sex victims’ | The Australian – 25 February 2016
• Elder abuse: Advocare logs 600-plus calls for help to protect finances from family exploitation | ABC News – 24 February 2016
• Australia’s ageing population prey to abuse | The Age – 24 February 2016
• Academia at odds over copyright reform | AFR – 21 February 2016
• Beware what you ask for: Australian research shows US model may harm creative industry if adopted in Hong Kong copyright law | South China Morning Post – 19 February 2016
• Do we need a new human rights commissioner? Yes, but it’s complicated | The Conversation – 15 February 2016
• Fair use a threat to government’s ideas boom | LinkedIn- 14  February 2016
• The AFP and me: how one of my asylum stories sparked a 200-page police investigation | The Guardian  – 12 February 2016
• Government Foreshadows New Privacy Obligations | Lexology  – 12 February 2016
• Freedom of speech s 18c may be unconstitutional | John W Bolton – 9 February 2017
• Oliver murders, 30 years on: crime led to stronger ACT domestic violence laws | Canberra Times  – 6 February 2016
• Another ‘aberration’ shows 18C is problem and must be changed | The Australian – 6 February 2016
• Protecting gui designs in Australia: more questions than answers | Lexology – 5 February 2016
• Repeal section 18C, the ‘Andrew Bolt’ law: it stifles free speech | The Australian – 5 February 2016
• Senate inquiry into online privacy debacles | Web9 – 30 January 2016
• And the copyright changes keep coming – safe harbour, fair dealing and more | Lexology – 29 January 2016
• Media reforms need to focus on improving regulatory framework | The Australian – 25 January 2016
• Australian Copyright Reform off to a Good Start for 2016 | Australian Digital Alliance – 21 January 2016
• Australian copyright reform stuck in an infinite loop | The Conversation – 18 January 2016
• How the Libs stuffed copyright reform | MacroBusiness – 18 January 2016
• Tech giants call for copyright law overhaul | The Australian – 18 January 2016
• Employee surveillance regulation inconsistent across Australia | Lawyers Weekly – 14 January 2016
• Release of the ALRC Freedoms Report is something to look forward to in March 2016 | North Coast Voices – 8 January 2016
• Law change to make reporting of privacy breaches mandatory | AFR – 4 January 2016
• Domestic violence offenders use child custody orders to abuse ex-partners | Canberra Times – 4 January 2016