08.01.2015

ALRC in the media – 2015

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.

Government adds fair use, safe harbour provisions to Copyright Act | ZDNet – 24 December 2015
The Australian government is completely ignoring an innovative legal reform on copyright | Business Insider – 24 December 2015
Will the proposed s116A prohibit or entrench racial discrimination in the Constitution? | Crikey – 20 December 2015
Australian corporate counsel under cyber attack but no plans to increase security spend | Computer Weekly – 17 December 2015
Gillian Triggs: How the ‘fair go’ became the last bulwark for Australia’s freedoms | The Conversation – 14 December 2015
Data breach laws pushed out to 2016 | iStart – 10 December 2015
New proposal for mandatory reporting of data breaches | Lexology – 9 December 2015
Turnbull criticised over lack of copyright reform in innovation plan | CIO – 9 December 2015
Serious Data Breach Notification Bill – exposure draft released for consultation | Clayton Utz – 8 December 2015
Why Women Shouldn’t Have to Form Girl-Gangs to Deal with Dickheads on the Internet | Medium – 4 December 2015
My Favourite eDiscovery Tiramisu Recipe | IDM Magazine – 27 November 2015
Former ASIC chief Alan Cameron to head NSW Law Reform Commission | SMH – 26 November 2015
What start-ups do differently in service delivery | The Mandarin- 23 November 2015
New image for TV’s code of practice | PS News – 17 November 2015
Suffer the Children – Trouble in the Family Court | The Monthly – November 2015
The ACMA registers new Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice | ACMA – 10 November 2015
Mandatory reporting of data breaches on the horizon | Lexology – 10 November 2015
NZ accused of going easy on Australia | Radio New Zealand News – 10 November 2015
Student’s winning essay examines the limitations of the judiciary | University of Sydney – 2 November 2015
Laws to prevent ex-lovers who distribute ‘revenge porn’ are inadequate, a NSW inquiry hears | ABC – 30 October 2015
Australia’s bid for the UN human rights council was conceived in a parallel universe | The Guardian – 30 October 2015
Challenges in the struggle for equality | InDaily – 29 October 2015
Liability Hammer Comes Down on Google, But Hits Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation – 28 October 2015
Law Reformers mark 40 years | PS News – 27 October 2015
Awards attract leading lights | Lawyers Weekly – 27 October 2015
How to protect authors after Google Books wins its ‘fair use’ case, again | The Conversation- 26 October 2015
How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don’t belong? | The Guardian – 20 October 2015
Michael Lawler could face big fines and even prison for secretly taping phone calls | SMH – 20 October 2015
Rosalind Croucher Reappointed President of the Australian Law Reform Commission | The Media Online – 15 October 2015
Scare-mongering about kids and social media helps no-one | The Media Online – 12 October 2015
WikiLeaks: ISPs to hand over copyright infringer details under TPP | ZDNet – 12 October 2015
TPP digital rights fears: IP laws lock-in, offshore housing of personal data | SMH – 6 October 2015
TPP to ‘reflect’ notification regime for copyright infringement | ZDNet – 6 October 2015
Human rights inquiry and a Charter of Rights! | Spencer Zifcak – Pearls and Irritations – 5 October 2015
TPP meeting extends into weekend | Free Press – 2 October 2015
TPP trade negotiations extend | ZDNet – 2 October 2015
Weisbrot into Press Council ‘war zone’ | The Australian – 28 September 2015
Residents allowed to point security cameras at neighbours because of legal loophole | DailyTelegraph – 20 September 2015
Should it stay or should it go: The privilege against self-incrimination in WHS legislation | Clayton Utz – 17 September 2015
The Abbott Government’s real problem is that it’s not ideological enough | ABC The Drum – 8 September 2015
Fact check: Is it a crime to attack a royal commissioner? – Fact Check | ABC News – 4 September 2015
A new cyber-tort for Australia? | Lexology – 3 September 2015
Outrage loses to common sense | The Australian – 2 September 2015
Australian law reform: Connection to country | Law Institute of Victoria – September 2015
Connection to Country | Native Title Newsletter – August 2015
Piracy prevention vs. policing: Industry debates piracy code, website blocking | ZDNet – 27 August 2015
Tyrannical citizenship bill an attack on our liberties | The Age – 26 August 2015
Let’s take a ride on the privacy law reform merry-go-round | Salinger Privacy – 25 August 2015
Will Australian Government Use Cost-Benefit Analysis To Kill Off Fair Use Proposal Once And For All? | Techdirt – 24 August 2015
Ashley Madison spam starts, as leak linked to first suicide | The Register – 23 August 2015
Hockey’s IP inquiry another opportunity likely to be missed | The Conversation – 19 August 2015
Great Barrier Reef and other icons at risk from proposed law change: green groups | SMH – 19 August 2015
Brandis’ changes to environmental laws will defang the watchdogs | Business Spectator – 19 August 2015
Overarching inquiry into Australia’s IP arrangements announced | Lexology – 19 August 2015
Productivity Commission to look at intellectual property reform | SMH – 18 August 2015
Brandis’ changes to environmental laws will defang the watchdogs | The Conversation – August 19
Productivity Commission to probe intellectual property reform | ZDNet – 18 August 2015
Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia’s intellectual property arrangements | The Hon Joe Hockey MP – 18 August 2015
‘Family violence leave’ part of a new plan | DailyTelegraph – 17 August 2015
EFA cautiously welcomes action on fair use; calls for halt on ISP copyright code | Electronic Frontiers Australia – 17 August 2015
ALRC Inquiry: Abbott Government eroding civil liberties | The Big Smoke – 17 August 2015
‘Family violence leave’ part of new state plan to be announced | Herald Sun – 17 August 2015
Dallas Buyers Club decision: Federal Court mans sluice gates to hold back excessive damages | ZDNet – 14 August 2015
Our submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission | The Tax Institute Blog – 14 August 2015
Government announces economic analysis of ALRC copyright recommendations | IP Whiteboard – 13 August 2015
Court dismisses Dallas Buyers Club’s letters to infringers | ZDNet – 13 August 2015
Government announces economic analysis of ALRC copyright recommendations | Lexology – 13 August 2015
Attorney-general commissions cost-benefit analysis of digital copyright reform | ZDNet – 12 August 2015
Inquiry Reveals Effect of Recent Laws on our Rights | Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog – 8 August 2015
Indefinite copyright is a joke – the recipe for carrot marmalade proves it | Canberra Times – 8 August 2015
Press council chief David Weisbrot to look at AFL and bank sites | The Australian – 7 August 2015
Inquiry into legal rights seeks input | PS News – 7 August 2015
Environmental laws emerge as the next rights battleground | The Australian – 7 August 2015
ALRC suggests comp for enviro law | Workplace Insight – 6 August 2015
Website blocking injunctions, Dallas Buyers Club and the law reform agenda | Lexology – 6 August 2015
Press council urges better reporting of violence, sex abuse, race and religion | The Guardian- 6 August 2015
Brandis receives long list of rights-limiting laws – now can he justify them? | The Conversation – 6 August 2015
George Brandis ignores Australian Law Reform Commission report | Crikey – 5 August 2015
Commission welcomes initial findings on ALRC Interim Report on Traditional Rights and Freedoms | Australian Human Rights Commission – 5 August 2015
Tony Abbott tried to shut down motion on 18C as report backs review of Race Discrimination Act | SMH – 4 August 2015
Traditional Rights and Freedoms – Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws ALRC Report Released | Timebase – 4 August 2015
Security laws on asylum seekers, foreign fighters should be reviewed, says Law Reform Commission | Collie Mail – 3 August 2015
Traditional rights and freedoms — encroachments by Commonwealth laws | Australian Policy Online – 3 August 2015
Security laws on asylum seekers, foreign fighters should be reviewed, says Law Reform Commission | SMH – 3 August 2015
Are staff working in detention centres protected by whistleblower laws if they speak out? | Fact Check – ABC News – 3 August 2015
Australian Government passes site blocking legislation | Lexology – 31 July 2015
Michael Kirby Lecture ‘splendidly substantive’ | DiscoverSCU – July 2015
‘Freedoms’ inquiry focus on property rights | The Australian – 31 July 2015
The Down Under book and film remind us our copyright law’s still unfair for artists | The Conversation – 29 July 2015
Neoliberal legal scholar overseeing freedoms inquiry | Workplace Insight – 24 July 2015
Gina Rinehart mounts privacy claim against Channel Nine | AFR – 17 July 2015
Revenge porn penalties come under NSW parliamentary scope | Northern Star – 16 July 2015
NSW to revisit legal protection for personal privacy | iTnews.com.au – 6 July 2015
Another review of privacy protections | Peter A Clarke – 6 July 2015
Hockey v Fairfax should start the debate on defamation law reform | The Conversation – 3 July 2015
Hockey case spurs call for libel reform | The Guardian – 2 July 2015
The BBC is not forgetting | SmartCompany – 1 July 2015
Native title review finds process slow, resource intensive and inflexible | The Guardian – 29 June 2015
Supported decision making YES! But what role for substitute decision-making? | NSW CID Blog – 25 June 2015
Sex Party bid to legalise sale of X 18+ porn films in Victoria to stop sexually violent movies | Herald Sun – 25 June 2015
The Senate Has Passed The Government’s Site-Blocking Bill; Here’s What That Means For You | Junkee – 23 June 2015
The Pirate Bay faces block as anti-piracy bill passes | The Australian – 23 June 2015
Labor waves piracy site-blocking Bill through Australian Senate, despite concerns | ZDNet – 22 June 2015
Village Roadshow’s long fury road to blocking piracy sites | ZDNet – 22 June 2015
Website blocking ‘lazy and dangerous’: Greens | CIO – 22 June 2015
Unelected officials are stifling our democratic freedoms | Brisbane Times – 21 June 2015
Bench Book to help judges with DV case consistency | Rockhampton Morning Bulletin – 19 June 2015
New ‘Bench Book’ to beat family violence | PS News – 19 June 2015
Bench Book to help judges with DV case consistency | Byron Shire News – 19 June 2015
Dallas Buyers Club wants to know torrenters’ wage and download history | ZDNet – 18 June 2015
Greens call for delay of anti-piracy ‘Internet filter’ | Computerworld – 18 June 2015
Website blocking laws passed | CSO – 17 June 2015
Native Title review tabled in parliament | National Indigenous News Service – 11 June 2015
Africa’s worst new Internet Censorship Law: Everything you don’t want to know – but need to | Daily Maverick – 10 June 2015
Australian Law Reform Commission recommendations for reform of the Native Title Act | Indigenous.gov.au – 9 June 2015
National Family Violence Bench Book | A-G media release – 9 June 2015
Industry queries Australian Securities and Investments Commission plan to punish company chiefs | Herald Sun – 9 June 2015
Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: A Report of the Register of Copyrights | US Copyright Office – June 2015
Apparent Government Response to Family Domestic Violence in 2013 | Violence Hurts – 7 June 2015
Draft online policy not plagiarised | Channel24 – 29 May 2015
The right to discriminate is just a cover for prejudice | SMH – 25 May 2015
Kirby awarded honorary doctorate | Lawyers Weekly – 22 May 2015
MCV Pacific Women In Games: Jane Fitzgerald, Kathryn Reidy, Michele Reddy | MCV Pacific – 18 May 2015
PS awards for ICT excellence | PS news – 15 May 2015
Federal Government reviews Integrated Public Number Database | ARN – 8 May 2015
Privacy law and young people | The Lawyer – 5 May 2015
AFP guidelines on death penalty cases too weak, legal experts warn | SMH – 1 May 2015
Ed Husic: Abbott government’s anti-piracy crackdown sidesteps the real issue | SMH – 30 April 2015
The relevant standard of the ‘Informed User’ for Designs in Australia after Multisteps | Madderns – 10 April 2015
Reform or transform? NZ and Australian Customs laws change in different ways | Lexology – 7 April 2015
ASIC seeks to cut probe delays from client legal privilege | The Australian – 6 April 2015
Community action to drive family violence law reforms | Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate – 2 April 2015
ACT government to strengthen domestic violence laws | Canberra Times – 1 April 2015
IP in depth: patentable biotechnology – a comparative analysis of key markets | Lexology – 31 March 2015
Government remains committed to failed income management scheme | Green Left Weekly – 27 March 2015
Protecting your image online: how to stop unauthorised use and disclosure | Lexology – 23 March 2015
Australian game classification gets much-needed streamlining with international rating tool | SMH – 19 March 2015
Grant Samuel & Ors v Fletcher & Ors 2015 HCA 8 | Lexology – 18 March 2015
Cancel the inquiries: we don’t need more reports on domestic violence | The Conversation – 12 March 2015
Is invasion of privacy actionable? The rise of breach of confidence | Clayton Utz – 11 March 2015
Australia to Take Part in Trial of New Game Classification Tool | NZGamer.com – 11 March 2015
Australia to trial new games classification tool | Stuff.co.nz – 11 March 2015
Data retention bill ‘far too intrusive’, says new Press Council chair David Weisbrot | The Guardian – 9 March 2015
Number of women appointed to the bench has stalled | Australian Financial Review – 6 March 2015
Data deal – mandatory data breach notification laws introduced as trade-off for controversial metadata retention regime | Lexology – 6 March 2015
Web story: David and The Australian | Media Watch (ABC) – 2 March 2015
PJCIS pushes for mandatory data breach notification | iTnews.com.au – 27 February 2015
New Aussie Firm Life Letters Launches Carrier, PGx Testing for Consumers | GenomeWeb – 25 February 2015
New pre-conception test checks potential parents for 145 genetic disorders | SMH – 25 February 2015
Australia’s Proposed Copyright Alert System Allows Rightsholders to Spy on Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation – 24 February 2015
Setting the legal zeitgeist | Lawyers Weekly – 19 February 2015
No one is going to develop your career for you | Lawyers Weekly – 19 February 2015
Privacy laws can punish Facebook revenge photos | Mondaq – 13 February 2015
WA Supreme Court delivers explicit message on privacy: compensation awarded to Facebook post victim | VGSO Blog – 12 February 2015
TPP protects rights holders, not consumers, says Senator Ludlam | CNET – 13 February 2015
Outgoing Australian Press Council chair Julian Disney levels criticism at media practices in the digital age | ABC News – 4 February 2015
Simplifying native title | Law Council Australia – 3 February 2015
Australia Day medals reward PS excellence | PS News – 3 February 2015
Thornleigh professors appointed Members (AM) of the Order of Australia | Daily Telegraph – 31 January 2015
Any response to family violence must include funding legal services | The Guardian – 29 January 2015
From vinyl to digital – the second hand digital music market and implications for copyright | Lawyers Weekly – 28 January 2015
The list goes on: legal professionals honoured on Australia Day | Lawyers Weekly – 28 January 2015
Husband and wife team both garner a gong | Blue Mountains Gazette – 27 January 2015
Woman awarded $50k after ex-boyfriend posted sexually explicit videos on Facebook | Daily Mail Online – 27 January 2015
Technology leaders recognised in Australia Day honours | iTnews.com.au – 27 January 2015
Australia Day honour for Law School professor | Macquarie University – 26 January 2015
Australia Day honours for Macquarie professors | Macquarie University Newsroom – 26 January 2015
Compensation paid after Facebook post | AFR – 26 January 2015
Facebook sex tape case has implications for privacy law in Australia | SMH – 25 January 2015
Unions urge caution on IR reform | The Australian – 23 January 2015
Unions seek shelving of workplace changes | Brisbane Times – 22 January 2015
Politicians criticise ‘secrecy-at-any-cost’ attempts to uncover journalists’ sources | 9news.com.au – 22 January 2015
Unions seek shelving of workplace changes | 9news.com.au – 22 January 2015
Journalism is not a crime. So why are reporters being referred to police? | The Guardian – 22 January 2015
Journalists reporting on asylum seekers referred to Australian police | The Guardian – 22 January 2015
ACTU calls on Eric Abetz to freeze Coalition IR agenda | The Australian – 22 January 2015
Govts urged to give intellectually disabled people more say in decision-making in 2015 | ABC News – 16 January 2015
Australian Law Reform Commission report on legal capacity, disability and equality before the law | Righting Legal Capacity – 13 January 2015
Were disability advocacy groups too successful? It may explain their funding cuts | The Guardian – 9 January 2015
Will 3D printing usher in the next wave of Internet piracy? | CIO – 9 January 2015
Interview with Michael Kirby | Commonwealth Oral History Project – 8 January 2015
The Government can revive its ‘freedom agenda’ | The Drum (ABC) – 6 January 2015