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20.12.2024
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, …
Read more02.04.2024
WEBINAR Confronting Complexity: The ALRC’s reforms to financial services legislation and beyond
Wednesday 1 May 2024 at 1.00pm AEST Register now After more than 20 years of development, the legislative framework for corporations and financial services legislation is no longer fit for purpose. So, what should reform look like? Join the ALRC for a conversational and interactive analysis of the Final Report in the corporations and financial …
Read more21.03.2024
ALRC Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws Report tabled in Parliament
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recommended legislative reforms to ensure the Australian Government’s policy regarding anti-discrimination laws and religious educational institutions is given legal effect in accordance with Australia’s international legal obligations. The ALRC’s Report – ‘Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws’, was today tabled in Parliament …
Read more08.02.2024
FAQs: The Legislative Data Framework
Over the past few years, the ALRC used pioneering data collection and analysis to scrutinise corporations and financial services legislation. Using legislative data, the ALRC was able to show just how complex corporations and financial services legislation is. The ALRC also used that data when developing reforms. This article aims to answer some of the …
Read more06.02.2024
FAQs: The FSL Schedule
This article answers some of the (hypothetically) frequently asked questions about the Financial Services Law Schedule (the ‘FSL Schedule’) recommended by the ALRC. Implementing two of the ALRC’s recommendations would produce the FSL Schedule: creating the Financial Services Law by restructuring and reframing the financial services provisions within Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 …
Read more01.02.2024
The ALRC’s Roadmap to Implementation
Throughout the Corporations and Financial Services Legislation Inquiry, stakeholders emphasised the importance of staging the implementation of reforms and managing transition costs. This article explains the ALRC’s suggested approach for implementing the reformed legislative framework for financial services. This is the fourth in a series of short pieces following the release of the ALRC’s Final …
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