ALRC in the media – 2014

The ALRC monitors the media for references to the Commission and its inquiries. This list is not comprehensive. ALRC in the Media archives are available from 2009.

• Privacy in the digital age – Law Institute of Victoria – December 2014
• 2014: An eventful year for Pirate Party Australia | Pirate Times – 31 December 2014
• The sex crime we need to talk about | Elle – 27 December 2014
• Privacy tort could enhance press freedom protection here, according to UK media law expert | Open and Shut – 17 December 2014
• Reframing the free speech debate | Australian Human Rights Commission – 17 December 2014
• RCSA publishes exposure IIS for industry feedback | The Global Recruiter Magazine – 16 December 2014
• Abbott’s Pirate Bay block will prove futile | Business Spectator – 15 December 2014
• Reformers to probe dodgy laws | PS News – 12 December 2014
• Australians May Get Their Own SOPA | Techdirt – 12 December 2014
• Coalition’s copyright ultimatum: The collateral damage of the war on online pirates | Business Spectator – 11 December 2014
• Site blocking ‘unlikely to be an effective’ in piracy fight: Labor | Computerworld – 11 December 2014
• Professor Rosalind Croucher reappointed President of ALRC | Attorney-General’s Department – 11 December 2014
• Detaining Aboriginal youth: child protection to prison | Government News – 10 December 2014
• No media experience? He’s the perfect choice | The Australian – 9 December 2014
• Professor David Weisbrot appointed new chair of Australian Press Council | Daily Telegraph – 9 December 2014
• When is information about a residential property “personal information”? | IP Whiteboard – 8 December 2014
• Law reformer to replace Disney as Press Council chair | The Newspaper Works – 8 December 2014
• Press Council looks to the law | The Australian – 8 December 2014
• Australian Press Council names David Weisbrot as Disney successor | The Guardian – 8 December 2014
• David Weisbrot to be next Press Council chair as two sign up | The Australian – 8 December 2014
• Report: Dementia patients, disabled should make own health decisions | The Age – 7 December 2014
• Law Reform Commission Reports: Recent Releases | Slaw – 7 December 2014
• Canberra’s attack on basic freedoms | The Australian – 5 December 2014
• Company directors lose out in attack on legal rights | The Australian – 5 December 2014
• Australia’s High Court Justices Are The Most Fascinating Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of | Junkee – 5 December 2014
• Gathering Storm | The Monthly – 4 December 2014
• Australian designs system under review | Freehills Patent Attorneys – JDSupra – 4 December 2014
• Productivity Commission Recommends Contingency Fees and Limited Opening of Family Law to Non-Lawyers | Legal Practice Intelligence – 3 December 2014
• New focus on rights in disability law | PS News – 2 December 2014
• Privacy Law Update – International reform | InfoRM – 2 December 2014
• Thousands of Victorians unable to vote because of ‘unsound mind’ | The Age – 28 November 2014
• Superannuation And Other Barriers To Older People Working Need To Go | Bookkeeping Services in Australia – 26 November 2014
• Need to ensure equal participation by people with disabilities in Australia’s democracy | Human Rights Law Centre – 25 November 2014
• State Government to give all public sector workers domestic violence training | The Australian – 25 November 2014
• High Court rules Wellington Capital acted beyond power: take care in drafting and interpreting fund constitutions | Hall & Wilcox Lawyers – 17 November 2014
• Why Australia needs stronger protections for privacy | Titan Vine – 14 November 2014
• Proposed changes to the Copyright Act to implement the Marrakesh Treaty – with a side note on the ALRC’s fair use recommendation | IP Whiteboard – 11 November 2014
• Forget-me-not (just forget what I’ve done) – the right to be forgotten | Lexology – 11 November 2014
• Going public on privacy – but is anyone listening? | Insurance News – 10 November 2014
• Noel Pearson’s eulogy at Gough Whitlam memorial in full | news.com – 5 November 2014
• Gough Whitlam’s Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial | The Guardian – 5 November 2014
• Responsible media use of drones should be exempted from laws: Goldberg #G20Griff | Journlaw – 4 November 2014
• Finance and Public Administration References Committee – Domestic violence in Australia | 4 November 2014
• Data retention: a delicate balancing act | AFR – 3 November 2014
• ALRC is Looking to Crack Down on Breaches of Privacy | Harwood Andrews – 3 November 2014
• When is private also public? | Newcastle Herald – 2 November 2014
• Screenrights collects $42 million | if.com.au – 31 October 2014
• Drone farm surveillance still a legal grey area | Queensland Country Life – 31 October 2014
• Spurr case sparks debate over need for privacy laws | AFR – 31 October 2014
• Tell cross benchers in the Senate, give thumbs down to abolishing OAIC | Open and Shut – 30 October 2014
• Leaked emails and the limits of privacy | RN Breakfast – ABC Radio National – 30 October 2014
• Privacy proposal a ‘long time coming’ | Charles Darwin University, 2GB – 30 October 2014
• Interview with Professor McDonald | Sydney Live with Ben Fordham, 2GB – 29 October 2014
• ALRC Final Report into Serious Invasions of Privacy: Filling the Great Lacunae | Timebase – 29 October 2014
• Debate on Native Title | PS News- 28 October 2014
• Review of the Native Title Act 1993 Discussion Paper (DP 82) | Timebase – 27 October 2014
• Spurr v New Matilda: a test case for privacy | Media Watch (ABC TV) – 27 October 2014
• Copyright in the Trans-Pacific Partnership echoes past mistakes | The Conversation- 24 October 2014
• Barry Spurr v New Matilda: the facts, the law and the porridge | The Guardian – 24 October 2014
• Review of the Native Title Act 1993 (DP 82) |  Australian Policy Online – 23 October 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission Discussion Paper on Native Title |  Library Boy – 23 October 2014
• A list of Whitlam’s achievements | Bendigo Advertiser – 22 October 2014
• More than revenge: when intimate images are posted online | The Conversation – 20 October 2014
• Australia recommended to introduce tort of invasions of privacy | The Decoder – 9 October 2014
• Call for Australian inquiry into surrogacy | RTÉ News – 9 October 2014
• Report into serious invasions of privacy in the digital era released | Lexology – 8 October 2014
• Size matters in iron ore battle as BHP, Rio slash costs | The Australian – 7 October 2014
• The Abbott government’s ‘freedom’ agenda is breathtakingly hypocritical | The Guardian – 7 October 2014
• Australia: an opportunity missed to enhance press freedom | Paul Wragg, Inforrm’s Blog – 7 October 2014
• Newsroom Staff and alumni recognised in 100 women of influence awards | Macquarie University – 2 October 2014
• Australia’s 100 Women of Influence 2014 | Techly – 2 October 2014
• 100 Women of Influence Awards showcase remarkable array of talent | Techly – 2 October 2014
• Australia’s anti-piracy regulation debate hots up | Techly – 1 October 2014
• Balancing innovation and competition in intellectual property | TMTblog – 25 September 2014
• The nasty surprises in discovery | Lawyers Weekly – 25 September 2014
• ACMA finds Channel Nine Queensland breached privacy and accuracy guidelines | Peter A Clarke – 25 September 2014
• What chance a ‘principled framework to balance secrecy and open and accountable government’? | Open and Shut – 22 September 2014
• New ALRC privacy tort and the celebrity photo hacking scandal | Mondaq – 21 September 2014
• Reform panel sets up public wiki to aid inquiry | The Australian – 19 September 2014
• ALRC urged to examine impact of legal aid funding cuts on disability sector | Law Council of Australia – 19 September 2014
• The prospect of a tort for invasion of privacy arises again | Clayton Utz – 18 September 2014
• Explainer: Can a DNA test reveal if you’re an Indigenous Australian? | The Conversation – 18 September 2014
• New ALRC privacy tort and the celebrity photo hacking scandal | Swaab Attorneys – 17 September 2014
• Australian disability reform and political participation | Australian Review of Public Affairs – 16 September 2014
• Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era: ALRC’s New Report | Wrays – 16 September 2014
• The dawn of the age of the drones: an Australian privacy law perspective | Australian Policy Online – 15 September 2014
• ALRC Releases New Report on Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era | IPeriscope – 15 September 2014
• Censorship Is Not The Answer to Online Piracy | TorrentFreak – 14 September 2014
• Privacy This Week – Australia: OAIC guide endorses mandatory breach notification | Data Guidance – 11 September 2014
• Privacy Breaches: What are your rights? Does the law need reform? | Startup Daily – 10 September 2014
• ALRC Final Report: ‘Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era’ | Allens – 10 September 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission releases report on privacy | Service Delivery in Government – 10 September 2014
• Privacy rights reform must prevail over naked ambition | UNSW Law – 8 September 2014
• Privacy rights reform must prevail over naked ambition | Brisbane Times – 7 September 2014
• Privacy rights reform must prevail over naked ambition | SMH – 7 September 2014
• The Australian Law Reform Commission is Calling for National UAV Standards | Weather in the City – 6 September 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission Report into Serious Invasions of Privacy | Library Boy – 6 September 2014
• Increase privacy protections: law reform report | Breakfast – ABC Radio National – 5 September 2014
• Law reformers want tougher privacy | PSnews – 5 September 2014
• Why Australia needs stronger protections for privacy | iTnews – 5 September 2014
• Aussie Agency Pushes Parliament To Enact Privacy Tort | Law360 – 5 September 2014
• Civil action is the big stick needed to protect our privacy | The Conversation – 4 September 2014
• At least the games industry wins in Abbott’s war on ‘red tape’ | Daily Review – 4 September 2014
• Afternoons with Will Goodings | Fiveaa Adelaide – 4 September 2014
• ALRC report on serious invasions of privacy in the digital era | Mallesons – 4 September 2014
• It’s time for privacy invasion to be a legal wrong | The Conversation – 4 September 2014
• Law Reform Commission calls for national surveillance laws | ABC Rural – 4 September 2014
• Barbara McDonald of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Dougal Gordon of the Australian Lot Feeders Association on a recommendation for national surveillancelaws | ABC News – 4 September 2014
• Roger Wilkins on privacy: former Attorney-General secretary | The Mandarin – 4 September 2014
• Serious Invasions of Privacy – a new Cause of Action in Australia? | IP Whiteboard – 4 September 2014
• Serious invasion of privacy and ‘ag-gag’ laws | Lexology – 4 September 2014
• Serious invasions of privacy – a new cause of action in Australia? | Lexology – 4 September 2014
• Celebrity Nude Pics Shocker: suing for invasion of privacy in the digital age | Marque – 4 September 2014
• New laws urged to protect our privacy | Cowra Community News – 4 September 2014
• New laws urged to protect privacy in Aust | The Australian – 3 September 2014
• Law Reform Commission calls for national surveillance laws | ABC Rural (ABC) – 3 September 2014
• New laws urged to protect privacy in Aust | SMH – 3 September 2014
• New laws urged to protect privacy in Aust | Herald Sun – 3 September 2014
• Law Reform Commission seeks right to sue for victims of privacy violations | Daily Me – 3 September 2014
• Serious invasions of privacy in the digital era: final report | Australian Policy Online – 3 September 2014
• Freedom Abbott – The brief life and quiet death of Tony Abbott’s love of liberty | The Monthly – 3 September 201
• ALRC proposes privacy laws, drops safe harbour for internet intermediaries | CNET – 3 September 2014
• Meat on the bone for cause of action for unwarranted serious breach of privacy | Open and Shut – 3 September 2014
• ALRC recommends tort for serious invasion of digital privacy | ZDNet – 3 September 2014
• ALRC drops safe harbour from proposed privacy law | iTnews – 3 September 2014
• Report into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era released | WorldNews – 3 September 2014
• ALRC grapples with privacy in the drone and data era | Computerworld – 3 September 2014
• Report into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era released | Pogo Was Right – 3 September 2014
• Privacy law reboot needed says Oz Law Reform Commission | The Register – 3 September 2014
• Australia Updates Breach Notification Guide; Notice Strongly Recommended, Not Required | Bloomberg BNA – 2 September 2014
• A Major Amendment Was Just Made To The Australian Classification Act | Kotaku Australia – 29 August 2014
• Major Australian Classification Amendment Passes Senate | IGN – 28 August 2014
• Aussie game classification receives first major reform in nearly twenty years | Develop – 28 August 2014
• Rampant online ­piracy must be tackled’, says News Corp | The Australian – 27 August 2014
• Proposed FOI arrangements retrograde not beneficial | Open and Shut – 27 August 2014
• Time to take stand in defence of free speech | SMH – 25 August 2014
• Getting a job as a wheelchair user | Daily Life – 19 August 2014
• Surrogacy in Australia needs government conversation not just state legislation | SMH – 19 August 2014
• Overseas surrogacies at risk of ‘no secure legal’ standing, report warns | SMH – 14 August 2014
• Copyright amendments foreshadowed: ISPs and content providers beware | Mondaq – 14 August 2014
• Free Speech 2014 symposium starts national discussion | Australian Human rights Commission – 12 August 2014
• Gadfly: Bolt cutters leave no Marx | The Saturday Paper – 11 August 2014
• Lessons from RDA debate should not be forgotten | Australian Human rightr Commission – 11 August 2014
• *Live* Free Speech 2014 symposium | YouTube – 8 August 2014
• Free-speech limits debate finds new voice | The Australian – 8 August 2014
• Free Speech 2014: Brandis pulls out of conference | The Guardian – 7 August 2014
• Laws on lethal domestic violence should be reviewed | The Conversation – 6 August 2014
• Flying Solo | Howzat? (Graeme Innes, blog)  – 29 July 2014
• Industry Insight – Classification | MCV Pacific – 29 July 2014
• It’s time to fully include people with disability in our democracy | Human Rights Law Centre – 27 July 2014
• Privacy fears as Australian surveillance laws are dragged into the digital era | The Guardian – 26 July 2014
• Australian Government Proposes New Copyright Law: Basically Hollywood’s Wishlist | Techdirt – 25 July 2014
• Australia set to toughen online piracy laws | Advanced Television – 25 July 2014
• Drone-flyers back call for national regulation | The Australian – 18 July 2014
• Drones finally get MPs talking tougher on privacy laws | The Conversation – 17 July 2014
• Australia should introduce drone privacy laws by 2015 | Computerworld – 14 July 2014
• Drones pose growing privacy risk | SMH – 14 July 2014
• Stronger privacy laws needed to protect public from drones, parliamentary committee says | ABC News – 14 July 2014
• Inquiry finds drones a threat to citizen privacy | iTnews.com.au – 14 July 2014
• Right to be forgotten in the internet era: who has it and does it apply in Australia? | Mondaq – 8 July 2014
• Free Speech 2014 | Australian Human Rights Commission – 8 July 2014
• Parrot’s new range of toy drones aimed at teenagers raise privacy concerns | News.com.au – 8 July 2014
• BOTPA – ‘Because Of The Privacy Act’ – rears its thoughtless head again | PS News – 1 July 2014
• A small step towards fair use; a giant leap for the visually impaired | Electronic Frontiers Australia – 25 June 2014
• Candid photos ethical dilemma in internet age | Newcastle Herald – 15 June 2014
• Snowden report calls out Australia’s inadequate privacy law | The Conversation – 12 June 2014
• Dramatic Change to Australian Copyright Unlikely | Rouse Lawyers – 11 June 2014
• Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? | AFR – 8 June 2014
• Family Law Reform in Australia: Government Bodies | Family Law Express Brief – 7 June 2014
• Vital Issues Seminars and Parliamentary Library Lecture 2013-2014, Copyright and the Digital Economy | Parliament of Australia – 4 June 2014
• Law reform bid to protect migrant women | Law Reform Commission of Thailand – 4 June 2014
• Beyond The Review – A Preview | Kay & Hughes- 3 June 2014
• Search engines face de-link challenge with ‘right to be forgotten’ principle | The Australian- 30 May 2014
• Inquiry a chance to roll back civil rights curbs | The Australian Bulletin – 30 May 2014
• Review revives debate on charter of rights | The Australian Bulletin – 30 May 2014
• CAMAC to be abolished | Lexology – 29 May 2014
• ALRC signals reform to end disability discrimination | The Australian Bulletin – 28 May 2014
• Miners fear native title ‘connection’ fallout | The Australian – 28 May 2014
• Industrial relations: once the cranks’ obsession, now the government’s business | The Guardian – 27 May 2014
• The new paradigm of freedom | ABC Radio National – 27 May 2014
• Is it OK for people to take pictures of you in public and publish them? | The Conversation – 27 May 2014
• Ensuring disability no bar to equality | PSNews – 27 May 2014
• ABC RN Law Report host @damien_carrick talks privacy with @journlaw | journlaw – 26 May 2014
• Justin Quill and Peter Bartlet: Does Australia need a statutory right to privacy? | Gazette of Law & Journalism – 26 May 2014
• Tom Blackburn SC: Does Australia need a statutory right to privacy? | Gazette of Law & Journalism – 26 May 2014
• Dr David Rolph: Does Australia need a statutory right to privacy? | Gazette of Law & Journalism – 26 May 2014
• George Brandis puts IR in sights of review | The Australian – 26 May 2014
• A-G targets IR laws in new ALRC inquiry | Workplace Express – 23 May 2014
• eBay argued against stronger privacy breach penalties | ZDNet – 22 May 2014
• Discrimination fears prompt reform push | The Advocate – 16 May 2014
• People have right to be forgotten on Google and other online services | SMH – 14 May 2014
• Why Government’s Plan To Merge The Classification Review Board Isn’t Disastrous | Kotaku Australia – 13 May 2014
• Australia’s Attorney General Ignores All Evidence And Experts: Decides To Obey Hollywood’s Commands On Copyright | Techdirt – 6 May 2014
• US calls to drop ‘fair use’ copyright clause smacks of self service | The Australian – 2 May 2014
• Australia Post and the Mint targeted in privatisation push | The Guardian – 1 May 2014
• Stop the pirates? Behind Brandis’ copyright crusade | SBS News – 30 April 2014
• Review of Native Title Act | Radio Adelaide – 29 April 2014
• ‘Invasions of privacy’ reforms: Protecting privacy at the expense of freedom of expression | Corrs Chambers Westgarth – 29 April 2014
• Update on Australia’s fair use copyright proposal | Lexology – 28 April 2014
• Serious invasions of privacy by the media: ALRC calls for increased media regulator powers | Mondaq – 26 April 2014
• Seniors’ job fears if pension age rises | AFR – 22 April 2014
• Why is data retention an option in Australia after Europe says no? | SMH – 15 April 2014
• Privacy starts to bite | AFR – 14 April 2014
• Dob dob dob: no honour in this scouting | AFR – 12 April 2014
• Australian Attorney General Picks Surveillance Over Fair Use on U.S. Visit | Electronic Frontier Foundation – 11 April 2014
• Privacy is a two-edged sword so should we mind our own business? | The Age – 10 April 2014
• How to stop lawyers charging like wounded bulls | SMH – 10 April 2014
• TPP looming as Abbott ticks off trade agreements | ZDNet – 10 April 2014
• The freedom wars and the future of human rights in Australia | Australian Human Rights Commission – 10 April 2014
• Beware a single-minded protection of freedom | AFR – 9 April 2014
• ALRC releases Privacy Discussion Paper | CCH Australia – 9 April 2014
• Freedom: the government’s inconsistent approach | The Age – 8 April 2014
• Privacy tort idea nixed | Freedomwatch – 7 April 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission Proposes New Data Deletion Principle | Bloomberg BNA – 7 April 2014
• Treading a fine line: Balancing privacy and public interest in law reform – Barbara McDonald | Inforrm’s Blog – 6 April 2014
• Not OK, Glass: ALRC Discussion Paper Proposes Privacy Tort | TimeBase – 4 April 2014
• Call for legal privilege in tax advice | ifa – 4 April 2014
• Guarding privacy in the digital era | PS News – 4 April 2014
• Copyright guru David Carson pans abuse of fair use edict | The Australian – 4 April 2014
• Brandis rejects privacy tort call | The Australian – 4 April 2014
• Making headway: Issues Paper released for Inquiry into Native Title Act reform | Clayton Utz – 3 April 2014
• Call for legal privilege for tax agents | Money Management – 3 April 2014
• IPA advocates for legal privilege | Professional Planner – 3 April 2014
• High Court rules that mining leases do not necessarily extinguish native title | McCullough Robertson – 2 April 2014
• The legality of wearable technology a concern | Mobile Commerce Press – 2 April 2014
• Australia proposes privacy tort | The Register – 1 April 2014
• Inquiry backs new legal right to privacy | The Australian – 1 April 2014
• Proposed privacy laws put blinkers on Google Glass | AFR – 1 April 2014
• Google Glass recording without permission could become illegal in Australia | Naked Security – 31 March 2014
• The Drum | ABC News – 31 March 2014
• Serious invasions of privacy in the digital era: discussion paper | Australian Policy Online – 31 March 2014
• Aussie Agency Wants Google Glass Recordings Banned | Law360 – 31 March 2014
• ALRC moves to fix Australia’s privacy problem | iTWire – 31 March 2014
• ALRC proposes unified, technology-neutral surveillance laws | CIO – 31 March 2014
• ALRC Discussion Paper on the Invasion of Privacy | Kernaghan & Associates – 31 March 2014
• Australia’s New Privacy Law Proposals May Kill Off Google Glass | Gizmodo Australia – 31 March 2014
• Internet companies should receive privacy safe harbour: ARLC | ZDNet – 31 March 2014
• ALRC Recommends “Fair Use” In Its Copyright And The Digital Economy Final Report | Conventus Law – 31 March 2014
• Law Reform Commission proposes a ‘right to be deleted | iTnews – 31 March 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission releases the Serious Invasion of Privacy in the Digital Era | Peter A Clarke – 31 March 2014
• Proposed privacy laws could make Google Glass illegal | AFR – 31 March 2014
• ‘Safe harbour’ for Facebook, Google proposed for Aus privacy law | iTnews.com.au – 28 March 2014
• ‘Vested interest’ in change bid | The Australian – 28 March 2014
• Australia’s digital privacy laws ‘lag other countries’ | itwire.com – 27 March 2014
• Tackling the age quake (Q&A) | CMSF2014 – 26 March 2014
• Arts Law responds to the ALRC Copyright Report | Arts Law – 26 March 2014
• Keeping people working the key | Money Management – 26 March 2014
• Credit files: privacy concerns and interest rates | Crikey – 24 March 2014
• Post ALRC – New World Order | copyright.co.nz – 24 March 2014
• Data Breach Notice Bill Filed in Australia Senate | Bloomberg BNA – 24 March 2014
• The ALRC conducts Inquiry into “Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era” | IP Whiteboard – 21 March 2014
• No case to change Racial Discrimination Act | SMH – 21 March 2014
• Game on for new classifications laws | PS News – 21 March 2014
• Government tinkers with classification scheme | if.com.au – 20 March 2014
• The Government Is In The Process Of Changing How We Classify Games | Kotaku Australia – 20 March 2014
• Proposed legislation aims to automate some game classifications in Australia | VG247 – 20 March 2014
• Classification Amendment Bill proposes increased industry self-regulation | MCV Pacific – 19 March 2014
• Government tinkers with classification scheme | if.com.au – 19 March 2014
• Private, keep out: how to safeguard your personal information | Crikey – 18 March 2014
• Asio and others seek more, not fewer, surveillance powers | The Guardian – 18 March 2014
• Don’t sue us for search: Google’s unnecessary safe harbour appeal | The Conversation – 17 March 2014
• How resellers can become protectors of privacy | CRN Australia – 17 March 2014
• ACCC endorses Fair Use and calls for Copyright reform | Australian Digital Alliance – 17 March 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission discussion paper into invasions of privacy to be released this Wednesday 19 March | Peter A Clarke
• George Brandis – no stranger to contention | AFR – 7 March 2014
• First-time Labor MP backs fair use copyright reform | Delimiter – 7 March 2014
• Redefining privacy in the age of Edward Snowden | Business News – 7 March 2014
• Privacy Act audits will consider infosec budgets | iTnews- 5 March 2014
• Reforming the Requirements of Proof: The Australian Law Reform Commission’s Native Title Inquiry | ILC – 5 March 2014
• Drones in Australia: fruit bats, forest fires and invasions of privacy | The Guardian – 5 March 2014
• Australian copyright law review recommends ‘fair use’ defence | AJ Park – 5 March 2014
• “Adopt fair use” – The Australian Law Reform Commission tells the Australian government! | CREATe – 4 March 2014
• Drones under the legal spotlight | ABC Radio National – 4 March 2014
• A Tale of Two Freedoms: Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Racial Vilification | ABC Religion & Ethics – 4 March 2014
• Google, eBay want ‘safe harbour’ | AFR – 4 March 2014
• Reforming the requirements of proof: the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Native Title Inquiry | Australian Policy Online – 4 March 2014
• Australia urged to take lead on international drone laws | The Global Legal Post – 4 March 2014
• Digital Overtakes Physical Sales In Australia; But Market Shrinks 11.6% | Beat Magazine – 3 March 2014
• Privacy Act lacks sufficient protection against drone invasion | CIO – 28 February 2014
• The Native Title Act, 20 years on | SBS News – 28 February 2014
• Fair Use Week: Day Five with guest expert Dr. Matthew Rimmer | Copyright at Harvard Library – 28 February 2014
• Drones in the sky – technological marvel or threat to privacy? | SMH – 27 February 2014
• Drones in the sky – technological marvel or threat to privacy? | Myall Coast Nota – 27 February 2014
• Explaining Australia’s Fair Use Publishing Conundrum | Publishing Perspectives – 26 February 2014
• Internet piracy talks must include us – the consumers | The Drum (ABC) – 26 February 2014
• Fair Use Proposed by Australian Law Reform Commission | Association of Research Libraries – 26 February 2014
• Brandis fair use ‘controversy’ as outdated as VCRs | AFR – 25 February 2014
• The ALRC Copyright Inquiry report and the Australian Society of Authors | ASA Bulletin – 25 February 2014
• Paramount Sets Lawyers on ‘Top Gun’ Frame-By-Frame Tweets | TorrentFreak – 25 February 2014
• Speech taking note of the ALRC Report “Copyright and the Digital Economy” | YouTube – 24 February 2014
• The ALRC Report on Copyright and the Digital Economy (and me) | Ariel Katz – 24 February 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission recommends the introduction of fair use in Australia | Future of Copyright – 24 February 2014
• Simplicity and fairness will aid innovation | SMH – 23 February 2014
• Drones to keep flying for animal liberationists | Stock & Land – 22 February 2014
• Retailers ignoring classification laws | Screen Print – February 2014
• The Coalition’s looming push for a well-ordered internet | Crikey – 21 February 2014
• The only way to fix copyright is to make it fair | The Conversation – 21 February 2014
• ALRC report released: Copyright and the Digital Economy | Parliamentary Library Blog – 20 February 2014
• Copyright Agency response to ALRC report on copyright | Copyright Agency – 20 February 2014
• Copyright and the Digital Economy: ALRC tables final report | AGS Express law – 20 February 2014
• Fair Use May Be Headed Down Under | Electronic Frontier Foundation – 19 February 2014
• Why deny US-style Fair Use copyright laws to Australians? | The Age – 19 February 2014
• Call for sense on copyright | The Australian – 19 February 2014
• Copyright reform needed to drive economy: Labor | The Age – 19 February 2014
• ‘Fair use’ urged as copyright defence | PSNews – 18 February 2014
• Labor to back controversial fair use policy | AFR – 18 February 2014
• Why I’ll take the approach of a classical liberal to human rights | The Australian – 18 February 2014
• Copyright reform needed to drive economy: Labor | SMH – 18 February 2014
• Brandis’ copyright crime and punishment | Business Spectator – 18 February 2014
• Fair use copyright law may boost cloud services: experts | AFR – 18 February 2014
• Is this ‘fair’?: ALRC calls for introduction of fair use | Architecture And Design – 18 February 2014
• The Australian Law Reform Commission recommends fair use, Europe next? | International Communia Association – 18 February 2014
• Copyright and the Digital Economy – fourth time lucky for ‘fair use’? | Minter Ellison Alert – 18 February 2014
• Fair use: Floodgates or fair go? | Corrs Chambers Westgarth – 17 February 2014
• Attorney-General Commits to Major Overhaul of the Copyright Act | infojustice – 17 February 2014
• Lobby pushing for Australian piracy crackdown donates millions | ZDNet – 17 February 2014
• Copyright reform rescues orphans | artsHub Australia – 17 February 2014
• ALRC’s copyright report seeks to undermine creative workers’ rights | MEAA – 17 February 2014
• ALRC Recommendations: Copyright Update: Australian Law Reform Commission Recommends Copyright Revolution | JDSupra – 17 February 2014
• Educators back ALRC push for copyright reform | AFR – 16 February 2014
• Copyright and the Digital Economy: the ALRC’s Final Report | Pub Date Critical – 15 February 2014
• Copyright fair use clause fails to persuade George Brandis | The Guardian – 14 February 2014
• Stop the torrents: Australian government eyes copyright crackdown | ZDNet – 14 February 2014
• Google: If We Were Australian, We’d Have Shut Down By Now | Gizmodo Australia – 14 February 2014
• Attorney-General mulls website takedowns, warning system to tackle piracy | Computerworld – 14 February 2014
• Copyright reform: ALRC endorses technology-neutral fair use exception | Computerworld – 14 February 2014
• Digital rights bodies back ALRC’s Fair Use call | Delimiter – 14 February 2014
• The ALRC report on Copyright and the Digital Economy recommends broad fair use exception | Clayton Utz – 14 February 2014
• ALRC Copyright and the Digital Economy Report released | King & Wood Mallesons – 14 February 2014
• Innovation and copyright at #ada14 | InternetNZ – 14 February 2014
• Copywrong: Why The Fair Use Copyright Reforms Won’t Pass The Parliament | Gizmodo Australia – 14 February 2014
• What the Dickens will Brandis do to copyright in the digital realm? | ZDNet – 14 February 2014
• The Australian AG’s Argument For Making ISPs Enforce Anti-Piracy Laws Is Completely Illogical | Lifehacker Australia – 14 February 2014
• Australia Should Add Fair Use To Copyright Laws Says Law Reform Commission | Gizmodo – 13 February 2014
• Free TV claims early win over FOXTEL | AFR – 13 February 2014
• Australian Law Reform Commission Copyright Report Recommends Introduction of Fair Use | Library Boy – 13 February 2014
• Copyright and the digital economy: final report | Australian Policy Online – 13 February 2014
• Government opposes Fair Use copyright reform | IF – 13 February 2014
• ALRC Report a “creator’s nightmare and a lawyer’s dream” | Screenrights – 13 February 2014
• FreeTV Media Statement | 13 February 2014
• Brandis likely to knock back relaxed copyright rules | iTnews – 13 February 2014
• Australia’s New Copyright Reforms: Everything You Need To Know | Lifehacker Australia – 13 February 2014
• The Australian Law Reform Commission officially recommends adoption of fair use | The 1709 Blog – 13 February 2014
• Review recommends relaxing Australian copyright rules | Australian Financial Review – 13 February 2014
• Future of Indigenous land rights under native title uncertain | SBS News – 8 February 2014
• Anti-doping rules need reform to ensure fairness | The Australian – 7 February 2014
• ICA defends insurers on disability discrimination | insurancenews.com.au – 3 February 2014
• Tim Wilson: Wilson: ‘total free speech’ needed for Human Rights Commission | SMH – 3 February 2014
• Wilson pushes ‘almost total free speech’ | The Courier-Mail – 2 February 2014
• Laws’ burden: huge cost in fight to clear name | The Australian – 31 January 2014
• Brandis to outlaw inciting hatred | The Australian – 31 January 2014
• New look at onus of proof will ease load| The Australian – 31 January 2014
• Advocates want law abolished after thousands taken off electoral roll for being of ‘unsound mind’ | ABC News – 25 January 2014
• Eight global trends that could reshape your online business in 2014 | Startup Smart – 24 January 2014
• Why ‘technology-neutral’ is a treacherous policy framework | Delimiter – 24 January 2014
• On copyright and artists’ rights: how fair is “fair use”? | Crikey – 24 January 2014
• Stop preventing people with disabilities from voting | Human Rights Law Centre – 24 January 2014
• Brandis urged to rework anti-terror laws | The Australian – 24 January 2014
• Copyright or copywrong? The state of copyright in Australia | iiNet Blog – 17 January 2014
• Age is not the perfect gauge in DIY super | The Age – 15 January 2014
• Copyright Review will be published by March | Delimiter – 13 January 2014
• Tech issues Australia’s freedom commissioner should address | ZDNet – 8 January 2014
• Law Reform given Herculean task | Civil Liberties Australia – 12 January 2014