24.06.2026
Government tables landmark ALRC report recommending a fairer, more efficient native title future acts regime
In a major report, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has found unfairness, inefficiency, and discrimination in the ‘future acts’ regime — the law that regulates how and when native title rights and interests can be lawfully infringed by various acts and economic activities, mostly done by the mining and pastoral industries and by governments …
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Review of Human Tissue Laws: Discussion Paper released
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has today released the Discussion Paper in its Review of Human Tissue Laws. The Discussion Paper contains a number of questions and proposed reforms for feedback. Organisations and individuals with an interest in the Inquiry are invited to provide submissions until 23 January 2026. ALRC Commissioner Dr Maeghan Toews …
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Review of Human Tissue Laws: Discussion Paper (2025)
This Discussion Paper continues the conversation started in our Issues Paper. We are now asking you to let us know your thoughts about our reform proposals, and related questions. The Discussion Paper contains 49 proposals and 47 questions. These cover a wide range of issues. You do not need to respond to every Proposal or …
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Submissions
The ALRC would like to thank everyone who made a submission to the Surrogacy Inquiry Issues Paper. We greatly appreciate hearing your experiences, views, and expertise. Some of these submissions may be confronting or cause offense to particular sections of the community. The views and opinions expressed in the submissions belong to their authors and do …
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Submissions
The views and opinions expressed in the submissions belong to their authors and do not reflect those of the Australian Law Reform Commission. For more information, see our submissions policy. Content warning Some submissions contain information about tissue and organ donation, and the circumstances in which people died before donating tissue, that is confronting and may …
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Review of Surrogacy Laws: Discussion Paper released
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released its Discussion Paper in its Review of Surrogacy Laws. The Discussion Paper sets out proposed reforms of surrogacy laws for feedback and also asks a number of questions. Organisations and individuals with an interest in the review are invited to provide submissions until 19 December 2025. ALRC …
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Review of Surrogacy Laws: Discussion Paper (2025)
This Discussion Paper builds on the conversation started in the Issues Paper. It outlines options to improve how surrogacy is regulated in Australia and asks for your thoughts to help us refine these options. You can tell us what you think by making a submission. The feedback that we receive to this Discussion Paper will …
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ALRC In Brief | November 2025
From the ALRC President Welcome to the latest edition of the ALRC’s In Brief newsletter. The last few months at the ALRC have been both busy and memorable. In October, the ALRC celebrated its 50th anniversary by hosting a dinner, attended by over 200 guests, and the Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference 2025 (ALRAC), with …
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The Challenge of AI for Law Reform and the Legal Profession
Address to the Australian Law Forum 2025 by ALRC President the Hon Justice Mordy Bromberg, 14 August 2025 Transcript CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY “Sensation is unorganised stimulus, perception is organised sensation, conception is organised perception, science is organised knowledge, wisdom is organised life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence and unity.” At the …
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Defining death: ALRC examines laws around human tissue and organs
ALRC Commissioner, Dr Maeghan Toews appeared on The Law Report, ABC Radio National to discuss the ALRC’s Review of Human Tissue Laws. Listen here Brought to you by ABC Radio National Presented by Kristina Kukolja In Australia, ‘what is death’ and other legal definitions, such as what constitutes human tissue, have not kept up …
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