22.06.2023

Financial Services Legislation: Interim Report C (ALRC Report 140)

Interim Report C contains recommendations, proposals, and questions in relation to the reform of corporations and financial services legislation.

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29.05.2023

Superannuation and the Legislative Framework for Financial Services (FSL11)

This discussion of superannuation and the legislative framework for financial services is the 11th in a series of background papers released by the Australian Law Reform Commission (‘ALRC’)
as part of its Review of the Legislative Framework for Corporations and Financial Services Regulation (‘the Inquiry’).

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08.05.2023

Post-Legislative Scrutiny (FSL8)

This discussion of post-legislative scrutiny is the eighth in a series of background papers to be released by the Australian Law Reform Commission (‘ALRC’) as part of its Review of the Legislative Framework for Corporations and Financial Services Regulation (‘the Inquiry’).

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20.04.2023

Deadline for reporting on Religious Educational Institutions Inquiry Extended

The Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, has today announced an extension to the reporting deadline for the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC’s) Inquiry on Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws. The report, which was initially due on 21 April 2023, will now be delivered to the Attorney General by 31 December

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09.03.2023

RECORDING Crypto Assets and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations Webinar

On 15 February 2023, the Australian Law Reform Commission, in association with the Corporate Law and Financial Regulation Research Program at Melbourne Law School, held a webinar on the regulation of crypto assets and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs).

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28.02.2023

Corporations, Financial Services and Charities – Regulatory Complexity and Coherence

On 6 February 2023, Dr Andrew Godwin (Special Counsel and Team Leader at the Australian Law Reform Commission) presented a paper with Professor Rosemary Langford of Melbourne Law School on ‘Corporations, Financial Services and Charities – Regulatory Complexity and Coherence’.

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23.02.2023

Submissions

The views and opinions expressed in the submissions belong to their authors and do not reflect those of the Australian Law Reform Commission. Readers are advised that some submissions contain content that they may find offensive and distressing. Individuals Organisations 1. P Nolan 9. Healinglife Church and Ministries Inc 2. C Bauer 75. Australian Discrimination

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04.02.2023

Judicial Legitimacy

This article published in Australian Law Journal Volume 97 (1) by the Hon Justice Stephen Gageler AC addresses some of the key themes of the ALRC Report, Without Fear or Favour: Judicial Impartiality and the Law on Bias (ALRC Report 138).

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30.01.2023

ALRC In Brief | January 2023

On 27 January 2023, the Australian Law Reform Commission released a Consultation Paper with proposals for changing the way Commonwealth anti-discrimination law applies to religious schools and other educational institutions.
Stakeholder submissions are now invited.

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27.01.2023

ALRC Religious Educational Institutions Inquiry: Consultation Paper Released

The ALRC today released a Consultation Paper with proposals for changing the way Commonwealth anti-discrimination law applies to religious schools and other educational institutions.

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