Acceptable Use Policy
The purpose of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Online Forums is to engage with members of the public about our current inquiries and work program. We welcome your feedback on any of our Forums.
To ensure that this experience is productive for everyone, please ensure that you do not post any material that:
- includes any abusive, obscene, indecent or offensive language
- is defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful
- you do not have the necessary rights, licences and consents to post
- constitutes spam, unauthorised advertising or solicitation
- contains long embedded URLs
- invades anyone’s privacy or impersonates anyone
- is far off-topic
- breaches a secrecy law, or otherwise constitutes a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability, or violates any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation anywhere in the world, or
- contains irrelevant or excessive links or code.
The ALRC reserves the right to not post any contribution on a Forum or to discontinue a Forum thread.
Comments that do not comply with this Acceptable Use Policy will not be published on a Forum. If the ALRC becomes aware of a published comment that does not comply with the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to remove it.
Posts may be edited by the moderator for length or to remove unacceptable parts of contributions. If you believe someone is not complying with the Acceptable Use Policy, or you would like to request that your post be removed from a Forum, please contact the Forum Moderator.
Posts will generally show up on the relevant Forum within two working days. Moderating and posting of comments will generally occur during regular business hours, Monday to Friday.
The ALRC will, from time to time, prune inactive users from our forum databases. This is one of the measures we have adopted to combat spam. We apologise to any legitimate users who may have their registrations deactivated. Should this happen to you, please feel free to re-register for the ‘Talk to Us’ Forums. Please contact the Forum administrator, if you have any queries about user registration.