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31.03.2025
ALRC In Brief | March 2025
From the ALRC President Welcome to the latest edition of the ALRC’s In Brief newsletter and the first for 2025, the ALRC’s 50th year. I’m pleased to be leading the ALRC for this milestone anniversary, which happens to be one of our busiest years with three inquiries running. We are also planning to hold 50th …
Read more11.03.2025
Law and Human Rights Expert Associate Professor Ronli Sifris to Join ALRC Review of Surrogacy Laws
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has announced Associate Professor Ronli Sifris as Assistant Commissioner for its Review of Surrogacy Laws. Assistant Commissioner Sifris is an Associate Professor at Monash University’s Faculty of Law and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Assistant Commissioner Sifris is a well-regarded specialist on surrogacy laws …
Read more08.03.2025
EVENT Launch of “Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence”
Launch Event: 8:00am Thursday 13th March 2025 The Australian Law Reform Commission is pleased to host a launch event for Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence on Thursday 13th March 2025. Streaming online from Melbourne, the ALRC will give an overview of the report, its findings and recommendations, as well as a panel discussion …
Read more06.03.2025
ALRC Final Report Tabled Today for Inquiry into Justice Responses to Sexual Violence
The Final Report of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) Inquiry into Justice Reponses to Sexual Violence has been tabled in parliament today. The report, Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence, and its 64 recommendations are the culmination of a 12-month Inquiry. The ALRC has concluded that the justice system is currently …
Read more07.02.2025
Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Human Tissue Laws in Australia
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has received Terms of Reference from Commonwealth Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP to review Australian human tissue laws. The review is asked to inquire and report on what reforms might be necessary to modernise and harmonise human tissue laws across Australian jurisdictions. Following the agreement of all …
Read more20.12.2024
ALRC In Brief | December 2024
From the ALRC President Welcome to the latest edition of the ALRC In Brief newsletter. I’m pleased to update you on the work of the ALRC as we approach the end of 2024, and reflect on a dynamic and full year of work for the Commission. Since my appointment last year, I have been struck …
Read more16.12.2024
Listen: 2024 Higinbotham Lecture
The ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas program has published an audio recording of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) President, the Hon Justice Mordecai Bromberg, giving the 2024 Higinbotham Lecture at RMIT University in October 2024. The annual Higinbotham Lecture is one of RMIT’s most prestigious events and celebrates the legacy of Victorian politician and …
Read more06.12.2024
Australian Law Reform Commission to commence new Inquiry into surrogacy laws
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has received Terms of Reference from Commonwealth Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP to review Australian surrogacy laws, policies and practices. The Terms of Reference direct the ALRC to identify reforms, particularly proposals for uniform or complementary state, territory and Commonwealth laws that: are consistent with Australia’s obligations …
Read more28.11.2024
Review of the Future Acts Regime: Issues Paper released
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released its Issues Paper in its review of the future acts regime in the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), calling for submissions to the Inquiry. ALRC Commissioner Tony McAvoy SC, a Wirdi man, commented on the Issue Paper’s release: “I’m pleased to release the Issues Paper for the …
Read more11.09.2024
ALRC In Brief | September 2024
Modernising Australia’s human tissue laws The Attorney-General has announced that he will soon refer the ALRC an inquiry into Australia’s human tissue laws. It has been almost 50 years since the ALRC completed its 1977 report, Human Tissue Transplants. Significant social, technological, and scientific change in that time means the law has not kept pace, …
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