ALRC in the media – 2020

The ALRC monitors the media for references to the Commission and its inquiries. This list is not comprehensive.

For media queries, please contact comms@alrc.gov.au.

• Australian Inquiry into Litigation Funding and the Regulation of the Class Action Industry: final report released – time for meaningful and measurable change? | Lexology – 23 December 2020
• Litigation funding report a ‘Christmas present for corporate criminals’ | Australian Financial Review – 22 December 2020
• Two out of every five people in Australian aged care homes experience abuse, research finds | SBS News – 21 December 2020
• Children’s lawyers in spotlight | The Australian – 15 December 2020
• SIRS start date brought forward to April 2021 | Australian Ageing Agenda – 10 December 2020
• Criminal corporate misconduct – The ALRC confronts the ‘cost of doing business’ | Australian Ageing Agenda – 9 December 2020
• Advocates say SA Libs expose WA Labor “furphy” on religious exemptions | Out in Perth – 8 December 2020
• Scott Morrison urged to prioritise religious freedoms | The Australian – 6 December 2020
• Researchers, librarians, filmmakers and teachers are eager for the copyright reforms the government has promised | MENAFN – 3 December 2020
• The rise of state-based class action regimes | Lawyers Weekly – 3 December 2020
• Australia: Former journalist charged with terrorism offences | Mondaq – 2 December 2020
• Funder’s involvement in Spotless class action settlement was ‘inappropriate’, judge finds | Lawyerly – 1 December 2020
• Australia’s world-first repository of ‘modern slavery statements’ a step in the right direction | The Conversation – 30 November 2020
• Microsoft slammed for workplace surveillance tools | Information Age – 30 November 2020
• Walk and chew gum | The Australian – 29 November 2020
• Time to ‘turbocharge’ move to region, Minister says | The Weekly Times – 26 November 2020
• Fears that Family Court, Federal Circuit Court merger will result in ‘watering down’ of family law system | The Advocate – 22 November 2020
• ‘disappointing’ NSW Budget holds back on funding for Walama court, First Nations | Mirage News – 18 November 2020
• So, 83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want | Monash Lens – 17 November 2020
• Responsible Lending? Coalition’s left hand not sure what its right hand is doing | Michael West News – 15 November 2020
• Establishing Walama Court must not be ignored in NSW budget or justice system | Mirage News – 13 November 2020
• 83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want | Business News Australia – 12 November 2020
• Disappointing Full Federal Court decision on security for costs in Fair Work class actions | Mirage News – 11 November 2020
• Class action beauty parade takes centre stage at High Court | Lawyerly – 11 November 2020
• Corporate criminal liability: complex, unruly and uncertain | UNSW Newsroom – 9 November 2020
• Government must act to improve family law system | The Age – 7 November 2020
• No easy answers on how to best protect our privacy | The Sydney Morning Herald – 5 November 2020
• Submissions sought for Australia’s Privacy Act review | Lexology – 3 November 2020
• Law dean who was under fire for transgender comments steps down from role | Brisbane Times – 3 November 2020
• Time to revisit ALRC report to close justice gap | Mirage News – 2 November 2020
• Privacy Act review to examine privacy tort, direct action rights, and GDPR compliance | ZDNet – 30 October 2020
• Nathan Reynolds’ coronial inquiry hears evidence of systemic neglect, cruelty | Green Left – 30 October 2020
• Movers & shakers: ministry and cabinet shuffle | The Mandarin – 30 October 2020
• Stop reporting and start doing, lawyers tell NSW inquiry into ‘inhumane’ Indigenous incarceration | The Guardian – 26 October 2020
• We’ve investigated aged care for the past three years. These are the stories that shocked us. | ABC News – 25 October 2020
• Australian Human Rights Commission Opening Statement – Senate Estimates | Mirage News – 22 October 2020
• Australia: Corporate Crime in Australia 2020 | Mondaq – 22 October 2020
• A chance to swing the balance on our High Court the other way | The Canberra Times – 22 October 2020
• Power, corruption and lies: a new order for the corporate criminal responsibility regime in Australia? | Lexology – 20 October 2020
• Financial advisers ‘like politicians’: Hume | Professional Planner – 13 October 2020
• Granny flat boost piques interest but lacks detail | WA Today – 13 October 2020
• $3,558 per client, per year; the new normal | Professional Planner – 12 October 2020
• Capital gains tax exemption for granny flats | Central Coast Community News – 8 October 2020
• Budget winners: First-time buyers and granny flat builders | NestEgg – 7 October 2020
• Legal system marred by ‘deep and historical’ injustices | Queensland Times – 6 October 2020
• Accountability in deficit: agencies cut by $1.4 billion | The Canberra Times – 6 October 2020
• Australia needs a permanent war crimes investigation unit | Brisbane Times – 6 October 2020
• Accountability ‘facing attack’ from $1.4 billion in cuts, think-tank argues | The Mandarin – 6 October 2020
• Formal family agreements will protect older people | Australian Human Rights Commission – 5 October 2020
• Royal commission demands additional staff in aged care immediately | Brisbane Times – 1 October 2020
• It’s about to become easier to lend irresponsibly, to help the recovery | The Conversation – 29 September 2020
• Claremont murder trial, judges and apprehended bias and Victorian children on remand who never receive a custodial sentence | Law Report with Damien Carrick – 29 September 2020
• They promised to look after their elderly relatives. Instead they took their money | Brisbane Times – 28 September 2020
• The suburbs and towns that copped the most pandemic fines | Brisbane Times – 27 September 2020
• Australia: Time to repeal the NSW crime of offensive language | Mondaq – 24 September 2020
• A guide for lawyers to help with Elder Abuse released | Mirage News – 23 September 2020
• ‘Open your eyes to what in-cab surveillance means’: Truckie’s view | Big Rigs – 18 September 2020
• Draft legislation proposed by Federal Government would allow your personal data to be shared between government agencies | ABC News – 16 September 2020
• Reframing chapter 7 of the Corporations Act? ALRC corporations and financial services regulation review announced | Lexology – 16 September 2020
• ALRC Releases Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility in Australia | Lexology – 16 September 2020
• Industry welcomes legislative framework review | Insurance News – 14 September 2020
• Corporate criminal provisions too complex | Banking Day – 14 September 2020
• Melbourne is using pop-up police spy stations to find people breaking COVID rules – what does the law say? | Micky – 14 September 2020
• 2 legal reviews to hit ALRC desk on behalf of the federal government |Lawyers Weekly – 13 September 2021
• ‘Unacceptable’ delay in addressing aged care assaults of 100 per week | Brisbane Times – 13 September 2020
• Extensive review will tackle ‘complexity’ of financial services laws | Insurance News – 11 September 2020
• Rio Tinto and the Anatomy of Corporate Culpability | Pursuit – 11 September 2020
• Attorney-General wants to simplify corporations, finance regulation | The Australian Financial Review – 11 September 2020
• Probes to review judicial bias and financial probity | The Australian – 11 September 2020
• Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice | Mondaq – 10 September 2020
• ACT Election 2020: Delivering promise of a Human Rights jurisdiction | Mirage News – 10 September 2020
• Australia: Australian corporate criminal responsibility regime to be overhauled | Mondaq – 10 September 2020
• Thirty years after he was jailed, outdated law remains | CQ News – 8 September 2020
• Justice Kirby on why we must fight for privacy | Innovation Australia – 8 September 2020
• Class Actions | Asset Servicing Times – 8 September 2020
• A licensing regime will improve the litigation funding system | The Australian – 7 September 2020
• Our Lives Matter: The Shocking Truth of Indigenous | The Advertiser – 4 September 2020
• Australian Law Reform Commission Releases its Report into Corporate Criminal Responsibility | Lexology – 3 September 2020
• Aba joins law Council of Australia in expressing need for caution | Mirage News – 1 September 2020
• Reform on corporate criminal liability needed, but caution required | Lawyers Weekly – 1 September 2020
• Call for domestic violence to be recognized as a national emergency | Mirage News – 1 September 2020
• Businesses could be legally responsible for all employee actions | Money Management – 1 September 2020
• Law Council urges caution on changes to fundamental principles of criminal responsibility | Mirage News – 1 September 2020
• Corporate criminals should face new law for ‘systematic’ breaches | The Australian Financial Review – 31 August 2020
• ‘Unjust and unfair’ corporate responsibility laws must be reformed | Lawyers Weekly – 31 August 2020
• ALRC’s final report on Australia’s corporate criminal responsibility regime | Mirage News – 31 August 2020
• It’s time to raise the age: Aboriginal children’s lives matter | Brisbane Times – 29 August 2020
• Biz lobby group urges senators not to block litigation funding rules | Lawyerly – 27 August 2020
• Our aged should be secure, not stressed and exploited | InDaily – 27 August 2020
• Open letter calls for urgent action to address over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | UNSW Newsroom – 26 August 2020
• Class action crackdown spurs rush to courthouse | Lawyerly – 26 August 2020
• Industry urges Crossbench Senators to reject Labor’s attempts to remove regulation of litigation funders | Mirage News – 26 August 2020
• Labor looks to shut down litigation funding regulations in Senate | Lawyerly – 25 August 2020
• Coercive control law push to tackle abuse | The West Australian – 19 August 2020
• Class action red tape will hurt the little guys, help big litigation funders | The Australian – 12 August 2020
• Justice targets are a ‘wish list’ that lack real ambition, legal bodies say |  Lawyers Weekly – 3 August 2020
• Discrimination in schools – hanging by Rainbow Suspenders | QNews – 31 July 2020
• Australian Bar Association joins expression of disappointment at Commonwealth’s justice targets | Mirage News – 31 July 2020
• Justice targets are just a wish list | Mirage News – 31 July 2020
• Targets miss mark on justice for First Nations | Mirage News – 30 July 2020
• Rising Liberals jockey for position in fight over class actions | The Australian Financial Review – 30 July 2020
• Banksia class action throws judges’ power over funding agreements in doubt, MP says | Lawyerly – 29 July 2020
• Ai Group puts forward comprehensive plan to reform litigation funding and class action laws | Mirage News – 29 July 2020
• Calls for McGowan to step up for LGBTIQ+ students and teachers | OUTinPerth – 28 July 2020
• New rules could see funded class actions grind to halt | The Australian Financial Review – 11 September 2020
• What next for BLM? How a new role could help end Indigenous deaths in custody | SBS News – 27 July 2020
• New class action regulations slammed | Financial Standard – 24 July 2020 
• Nationally consistent power of attorney laws key to mitigating elder abuse | Mirage News – 24 July 2020
• ‘Regulatory vacuum’ means no funded class actions for a year, inquiry told | Lawyerly – 24 July 2020
• Calls for change after coroner’s report reveals Olga Neubert was refused FVO before her murder | ABC News – 23 July 2020
• Urgent call to harmonise powers of attorney | Australian Human Rights Commission – 22 July 2020
• ASIC warns on weaker disclosure laws | The Australian Financial Review – 21 July 2020
• Mentone girls’ grammar shines a light on past students success | Herald Sun – 15 July 2020
• ASIC kept out of the loop on litigation funder regulation | Brisbane Times – 15 July 2020
• Inquiry to cast public eye on class-action funding | The Sydney Morning Herald – 14 July 2020
• Herbert Smith Freehills data causes controversy at class action inquiry | Lawyerly – 13 July 2020
• Funders’ return come under fire in class action inquiry | Lawyerly – 13 July 2020
• Rebecca felt hopeless before she joined a class action | Brisbane Times – 12 July 2020
• Vickie Roach saw her first death in custody at 18. She’s spent the decades since fighting to abolish prisons | ABC News – 9 July 2020
• Closing the gap progress can’t take 73 years: Ken Wyatt | The Australian Financial Review – 3 July 2020
• Corporate wrongdoing is the real reason D&O premiums in Australia are rising | Lawerly – 3 July 2020
• Kirby Institute stands against racism, urgently calls for an end to over-incarceration and Aboriginal deaths in custody | UNSW Newsroom – 30 June 2020
• The law is a man’s world. Unless the culture changes, women will continue to be talked over, marginalised and harassed | The Mandarin – 25 June 2020
• Victoria’s class action market gets a refresh | Lawyers Weekly – 21 June 2020
• Contingency fee shift courting conflict | The Australian – 20 June 2020
• Big change to Victorian class actions passed amid political warfare | The Age – 19 June 2020
• New Laws To Improve Access To Justice Pass Parliament | Mirage News – 19 June 2020
• WA passes laws to stop vulnerable people going to jail for unpaid fines | Pro Bono Australia – 19 June 2020
• Contentious class action fees pass in Victoria | Brisbane Times – 18 June 2020
• Beware ASIC replacing class actions | The Australian Financial Review – 17 June 2020
• Govt announces funding, start date for incident response scheme | Australian Ageing Agenda – 17 June 2020
• What will it take for governments to recognise Australia’s justice gap is a national tragedy? | The Guardian – 16 June 2020
• How does Australia address worsening Indigenous incarceration rates? Focus on these three things | News.com.au – 16 June 2020
• Territory authorities back family law bill removing presumption of equal custody | NT News – 16 June 2020
• New reporting scheme released on WEAAD | Aged Care Guide – 16 June 2020
• Correcting the record – litigation funding and returns to group members in funded class actions | Lawyerly – 15 June 2020
• Time to close the class action paradise | The Australian Financial Review – 15 June 2020
• Report: 1000 cases of abuse at nursing homes each week | Queensland Times – 15 June 2020
• Response scheme to assist abused seniors | News.com.au – 14 June 2020
• Victoria’s shock elder abuse report revealed | Herald Sun – 14 June 2020
• Aged care providers must report resident-on-resident abuse under new scheme | The Canberra Times – 14 June 2020
• More than 50000 cases of resident abuse at nursing homes, report finds | Herald Sun – 14 June 2020
• Federal government funds Victoria’s Indigenous custody service | Brisbane Times – 13 June 2020
• Justice groups issue five-point plan to reduce Indigenous imprisonment | The Guardian – 12 June 2020
• Indigenous court needed in NSW to close gap and focus on rehabilitation, say advocates | SBS News – 11 June 2020
• World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: Together we are better, always! | Aged Care Guide – 11 June 2020
• ‘Nothing changes’: Indigenous leader wants action on incarceration rate | Brisbane Times – 10 June 2020
• NSW ‘indigenous court needed’ to close gap | 9News – 10 June 2020
• Premier needs to act on model to save black lives | WA Today – 9 June 2020
• Professor Marcia Langton AO calls on governments to listen to Black Lives Matter protesters | ABC News – 8 June 2020
• On Saturday, amid protests for Black Lives Matter, an Indigenous man died in police custody. | Mamamia – 7 June 2020
• Aboriginal deaths in custody: 434 have died since 1991, new data shows | The Guardian – 6 June 2020
• The secret history behind the great class action showdown | The Australian Financial Review – 5 June 2020
• Government hush on meetings with class action firm ahead of reform bill | Brisbane Times – 5 June 2020
• Australia: Scene set for the parliamentary inquiry into litigation funding and class action regulation | Mondaq News – 5 June 2020
• Urgent need to address Australia’s national disgrace | Mirage News – 4 June 2020
• Calls to end Indigenous deaths in custody | Mirage News – 3 June 2020
• 16 facts you need to know about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |  Mamamia – 2 June 2020
• Australia: Queensland Government Bulletin – In the media, In practice and courts, Cases and Legislation | Mondaq News – 2 June 2020
• Family Court report writer and former Big Brother psychologist, Bob Montgomery, pleads guilty to child sex abuse | ABC News – 2 June 2020
• John McFarlane getting on with fixing Westpac’s problems | The Australian – 2 June 2020
• Class warfare: The fight over corporate Australia’s most reviled legal tactic has begun | The Sydney Morning Herald – 30 May 2020
• NSW Bar renews calls for Walama Court | Lawyers Weekly – 29 May 2020
• High Court aims for full return by end of June | The Australian Financial Review – 28 May 2020
• Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner appears at federal parliamentary inquiry on Australia’s family law system | The Advocate – 27 May 2020
• Circle sentencing success strengthens case for a Walama Court in NSW | Mirage News – 26 May 2020
• Government acts to oversee litigation funders | Insurance News – 25 May 2020
• Business backs licensing of litigation funders | The Australian Financial Review – 22 May 2020
• Government announces crackdown on litigation funders | Lawyerly – 22 May 2020
• Class action funders placed under AFSL regime | Insurance News – 22 May 2020
• St Margaret’s most outstanding former students | Quest Community News North – 22 May 2020
• Crackdown on class action funders | The Australian Financial Review – 21 May 2020
• Australia: The COVID-19 class actions storm: A necessary spark for lasting change | Mondaq – 18 May 2020
• Lawyers’ picnic looks good to Labor | The Australian – 16 May 2020
• ‘My son should not have died’: Prison death of Indigenous man is much more than an ‘isolated tragedy’ | SBS News – 16 May 2020
• Just what we need – another class actions inquiry | The Australian Financial Review – 15 May 2020
• Coalition crackdown on class action suits | Nine News – 15 May 2020
• Holding corporations to account | Pursuit – 14 May 2020
• Class action profits out of order | The Australian – 14 May 2020
• Coalition crackdown on class action suits | Great Lakes Advocate – 14 May 2020
• Improving justice outcomes for class action members | Mirage News – 13 May 2020
• Coronavirus: Christian Porter takes aim at litigation funders | The Australian – 13 May 2020
• High noon for cashed-up cowboys of class actions | The Australian – 13 May 2020
• Government pushes ahead with class action inquiry | Brisbane Times – 13 May 2020
• WA Police: ‘Tension reduced’ after customary law punishment meted out over iron ore town murder | WA Today – 9 May 2020
• Australia: The offence of perverting the course of justice in New South Wales | Mondaq – 9 May 2020
• Coronavirus: ‘Locusts’ cash in on COVID-19 misery | The Australian – 6 May 2020
• Vocus ruling cements return to class action book building by funders | Lawyerly – 5 May 2020
• Don’t forget ACT’s horrendous Indigenous prison record | The Canberra Times – 3 May 2020
• Is it illegal under the constitution for a state to close its borders to other Australians? | ABC News – 26 April 2020
• Indigenous incarceration: a national disgrace and nobody cares | The Canberra Times – 26 April 2020
• Landmark ruling nixing class closure orders likely to reach High court | Lawyerly – 23 April 2020
• If you refuse to give authorities your password, Dutton wants to imprison you | The Big Smoke – 22 April 2020
• COVID urgency and calls for release | IndigenousX – 21 April 2020
• Max Headroom: How Surveillance Capitalism Works | Triple RRR Radio – 16 April 2020
• George Pell release sets precedent in keeping child abuse offenders out of jail | The Daily Telegraph – 7 April 2020
• Australia: Protecting against COVID-19 class actions | Mondaq – 4 April 2020
• As businesses rush into Zoom meetings, privacy lawyers urge caution | Brisbane Times – 3 April 2020
• 5 predictions for class actions in wake of COVID-19 | Lawyers Weekly – 1 April 2020
• Red tape burden outstrips growth | The Australian – 19 March 2020
• Australia: The consequences of a poor corporate culture | Mondaq – 19 March 2020
• Opposition demands changes to bribery laws | Nine News – 18 March 2020
• Religious Discrimination Bill looms over LGBTQI teachers | Star Observer – 16 March 2020
• Why the case against contingency fees does not stack up | Lawyerly – 16 March 2020
• Fury as Morrison Government delays gay law review | QNews – 16 March 2020
• Morrison government quietly mothballs laws to protect gay students and teachers | Sydney Morning Herald – 15 March 2020
• Report into discrimination against LGBTIQ+ kids pushed into the never-never | OUTinPerth – 15 March 2020
• ‘Potentially dangerous’: One Nation’s tactics at family law inquiry concern women’s advocates | The Guardian – 14 March 2020
• When will ASIC focus on truly criminal conduct? | The Australian Financial Review – 13 March 2020
• Lawyers unite to condemn contingency fees | The Australian Financial Review – 13 March 2020
• $50k fellowship to help find solutions to ‘failed system’ | Bryon Shire News – 12 March 2020
• Law reform backdown on corporate crime | The Australian Financial Review – 9 March 2020
• One Nation’s family court inquiry will just put women and children in danger | The Big Smoke – 9 March 2020
• Litigation funders help ordinary Aussies | The Australian – 6 March 2020
• Litigation funders face parliament probe | news.com.au – 5 March 2020
• On contingency fees, just follow Labor’s money | The Australian – 5 March 2020
• Class actions set for federal inquiry | Insurance News – 5 March 2020
• Mounting Calls To Overhaul Media & Gaming Classifications | Channel News – 4 March 2020
• ‘Who’s the target audience?’: Push to overhaul PG classification | Brisbane Times – 4 March 2020
• Controversy over US-style contingency fees in Victoria | The Age – 29 Feb 2020
• Legal Affairs: Class-action critics out of order | The Australian – 28 Feb 2020
• There’s a massive scarlet flag flying over women at risk | Brisbane Times – 28 Feb 2020
• Latest family law inquiry heading to Launceston | The Examiner – 28 Feb 2020
• Expanded liability action shelved as a step too FAR | The Australian – 27 Feb 2020
• Victoria shows no class in contingency fees push | The Australian Financial Review – 27 Feb 2020
• Class action law reform could see big firms cash in | The Age – 26 Feb 2020
• Brisbane car fire: Hannah Clarke murder, child killings must prompt action | The Australian – 21 Feb 2020
• Victorian class action contingency fees cause split |The Australian – 13 Feb 2020
• Tougher laws will entrench risk-aversion, company directors say | The Australian Financial Review – 13 Feb 2020
• How Australia introduced ‘no-fault divorce’ — and why our family law system is under review again | ABC News Online – 11 Feb 2020
• Directors blame class actions for soaring liability insurance | The Australian – 11 Feb 2020
• Judges take aim at corporate crime reform plan | The Australian Financial Review – 11 Feb 2020
• Unethical litigators cash in on the left’s ‘lawfare’ | The Australian – 10 Feb 2020
• Aged care provider says wealthy homeowners ‘should be paying more’ | Sydney Morning Herald – 9 Feb 2020
• Attack on litigation funding lacks evidence | The Australian – 31 Jan 2020
• 400 deaths, zero convictions: Australia’s national shame | Mamamia – 26 Jan 2020
• Australia: Consultation Open for Classification Review | Lexology – 22 Jan 2020
• Veronica Nelson Walker’s family laid her to rest not knowing how she died in custody | ABC News Online – 18 Jan 2020