The ALRC produces a range of publications including:
- Inquiry Reports,
- Consultation Documentation,
- Information sheets, and
- Reform Journal
The ALRC is committed to improving public access to its work and all past reports and recent consultation papers are available for free viewing and download via this website.
Some publications are available in book format for purchase.
26.05.2025
Review of Human Tissue Laws: Issues Paper (2025)
Submissions in response to the Issues Paper are now open. The Issues Paper introduces our inquiry and explains what we have been asked to do. It provides a brief overview of human tissue laws. The Issues Paper also sets out some aims and principles we may use to guide reform and lists some reform issues …
Read more22.05.2025
Review of the Future Acts Regime: Discussion Paper (2025)
Submissions in response to the Discussion Paper are now open. The Discussion Paper continues the conversation started earlier in our Inquiry. The Discussion Paper outlines what we have heard so far and sets out some options for reforming the future acts regime. We are now asking you to let us know your thoughts about those …
Read more03.05.2025
Review of Surrogacy Laws: Issues Paper (2025)
Submissions in response to the Issues Paper are now open. The Issues Paper introduces our inquiry and explains what we have been asked to do. It provides a brief overview of surrogacy laws in Australia. The Issues Paper also sets out some principles we may use to guide reform and lists some reform issues that appear …
Read more11.02.2025
Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence (ALRC Report 143)
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) report, Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence (ALRC Report 143), was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP on 6th March 2025. The Terms of Reference for this inquiry tasked the ALRC with examining a range of issues with the …
Read more28.11.2024
Review of the Future Acts Regime: Issues Paper (2024)
The Issues Paper aims to explain the future acts regime at a high level and introduce our Inquiry. It also starts a conversation by asking you to let us know your thoughts. You can do this by making a submission or in another way that works for you. There are five questions in the Issues …
Read more17.04.2024
Justice Responses to Sexual Violence: Issues Paper (2024)
Submissions in response to the questions raised in the Issues Paper have now closed. The ALRC sincerely thanks everyone who has made a submission. The questions focus on the information, support, and options available to victim survivors following their experience of sexual violence. At the same time, the questions recognise that a person accused of …
Read more21.03.2024
Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws (ALRC Report 142)
The Australian Law Reform Commission report, Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws (ALRC Report 142), was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC on 21 March 2024.
Read more18.01.2024
Confronting Complexity: Reforming Corporations and Financial Services Legislation (ALRC Report 141)
The Australian Law Reform Commission report, Confronting Complexity: Reforming Corporations and Financial Services Legislation (ALRC Report 141), was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC, on 18 January 2024.
Read more14.12.2023
What We Heard (ADL2)
This Background Paper aims to reflect what the Australian Law Reform Commission heard from a wide range of stakeholders during its Inquiry into Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws.
Read more14.12.2023
International Comparisons (ADL1)
This Background Paper discusses the application of anti-discrimination law to religious educational institutions from a comparative law perspective.
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