25 May 2012
he shadow A-G clearly relishes the chance to rap public servants and politicians over the knuckles in Senate hearings. Australian Law Reform Commission head Rosalind Croucher also copped a whack over the ALRC’s production of a 2700-page tome on privacy law reform.

Brandis said that the ALRC, while doing “wonderful work”, seemed to “overcapitalise its research”. He added he was unaware of any government, university or think tank around the world that had produced such a lengthy report on privacy law.

“Would you entertain the view that if the commission produced shorter and less discursive reports, it could do more important work because it could produce more reports?” he asked.

Croucher said the privacy report covered a wide area of law but conceded that other reports since had been shorter. Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon also got a spray from Brandis for taking 15 months to settle terms of reference for a coming copyright law reform inquiry by the ALRC. But Croucher said having consultation on the terms of reference was valuable and she expected the ALRC to finalise its report by late 2013.

25 May 2012

May 24th, 2012

24 May 2012

23 May, 2012
The government has introduced reforms to the Privacy Act, after releasing its initial response to the ALRC inquiry over two-and-a-half years ago

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Services to older people should be based on human rights principles, according to Australia’s first full time Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan.

15 May, 2012

In 2010, funding to the Australian Law Reform Commission was scaled back significantly. With those effects now being felt by the statutory body, Claire Chaffey examines how the legal team is soldiering on.

21 May 2012

17 May 2012

16 May 2012

Tuesday, 29th May, 2012

4 May 2012

By James Hutchinson on May 10, 2012

10 May 2012

8 May 2012

9 May 2012

7 May 2012
article by Susan Ryan

3 May 2012
By Susan Ryan

Peter Bartlett
From: The Australian
May 04, 2012

4 May 2012

3 May, 2012 - 14:42

3rd May 2012

April 2012
Linked to from http://apo.org.au

Thursday, 3 May 2012

And there are big questions about the future of copyright, which has been beaten about the head thanks to the convergence of media. But again, the review has left this to another body, this time the Australian Law Reform Commission, which is conducting its own investigation into copyright and digital media.

By James Hutchinson on May 2, 2012

3 May 2012, 6.40am AEST

Hamish Barwick (Computerworld)
02 May, 2012 07:30

Stephen Lunn, social affairs writer
From: The Australian
May 03, 2012

2 May 2012

2 May 2012

AAP
May 02, 2012

2 May 2012
Federal Government plans to reform privacy laws to better protect personal information, including enhancing the powers of the privacy commissioner.
The proposed changes to privacy laws follow reviews conducted by the Australian Law Reform Commission and a parliamentary committee, after the Government released an exposure draft of legislation in 2010.

Consumers win more power over credit data

1 May 2012

...We’ve got the recommendations from the Law Reform Commission, which I’ve said, and I stand by it, where they fall in terms of what’s in RC and what isn’t in RC, I don’t have a particular perspective . . . I’m very comfortable with what they’ve bought back. It fairly much aligns with the international list. I would hopefully be progressing that a little bit further soon. I would hope to be able to have some more conversations soon...

By James Hutchinson on May 1, 2012

By James Hutchinson on May 1, 2012

By Josh Taylor, ZDNet.com.au on April 30th, 2012

29 April 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Amid all the hubbub about Speaker Slipper, sure not to die down anytime soon despite his decision to step aside for the moment, I've been wondering when the mainstream media would notice that reams of material about his (or any parliamentarians') expenditure of public money seems to be available from the Department of Finance and Deregulation, either in published form or in response to Freedom of Information applications, but nothing from the Parliament itself about payments made to or on his behalf....

26 April 2012

26 Apr 2012

24 Apr 2012
The landmark decision by the High Court on Friday in favour of internet service provider iiNet, regarding rampant online file sharing, has industry experts split over whether copyright laws should be reformed and how urgently change is needed.
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The Australian Law Reform Commission was asked last month to review copyright law exceptions in a digital environment, but the terms of reference said it was not to “duplicate work being undertaken on unauthorised distribution of copyright materials using peer to peer networks”.

23 April 2012

Mon, Apr 2nd 2012

Stephanie McDonald (Computerworld)
23 April, 2012

20 April, 2012

April 16, 2012

We were promised there would be a review of the law in a few years and it's about to get underway, with the Attorney General's department issuing Draft Terms of Reference for the Australian Law Reform Commission Reference on Copyright. Submissions close on April 27 and the Commission is to report no later than November 30, 2013.

AFR
18 April 2012
Sally Rose

“Although privilege arises in the context of a relationship with a lawyer, it is a right that belongs to the citizen – not the professional,” says Australian Law Reform Commission president Rosalind Croucher.

Croucher was the commissioner responsible for a 2008 ALRC report recommending the creation of a tax advice privilege. The Australian Taxation Office currently recognises the principle of an “accountant’s concession”: the tax commissioner cannot request access to professional accounting advisers’ papers except in exceptional circumstances, but in practice this offers no actual protection to individuals or businesses being investigated.

Stephanie McDonald (Techworld Australia)
13 April, 2012 11:34

Article by Ros Croucher and Amanda Alford.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

By tflew | Published: April 4, 2012

I will be presenting on the Australian Law Reform Commission Report 118 – Classification: Content Regulation and Convergent Media – at QUT, D214, Gardens Point Campus, from 12-2pm on Tuesday 10 April, 2012.

30-03-2012

30 Mar 2012
AFR

31 March 2012

Norton Rose
Ashley Tsacalos
Australia
March 27 2012

NICOLA BERKOVIC
From: The Australian
March 31, 2012

30 March 2012

Diana Nguyen (Computerworld)
30 March, 2012 11:51

2 April 2012
Langes+

31 March 2012
Mondaq - Clayton Utz
Behind paywall

2 April 2012

PS News
3 April 2012

AG Media Release
30 March 2012

By Josh Taylor, ZDNet.com.au on March 30th

30 March
Draft TOR

30 March 2012
Draft TOR

30 March 2012
Draft TOR

30 March 2012
Roxon's Media Release

March 30, 2012

AG-s media release

By John Hilvert on Mar 30, 2012

The scope of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) review of copyright exceptions in providing greater access to copyright materials online will be hobbled if it has to operate under the Federal Government’s draft terms of reference

Josh Taylor, ZDNet.com.au on March 29th, 2012

This review was released earlier this month, with a recommendation that the definition of the content that would be blocked under a mandatory filter should be narrowed to exclude sexual fetish-type material and minor criminal activities such as graffiti or use of proscribed drugs.

At a press conference today, Conroy said that the government was still reviewing the report, but added that it was in discussions with industry associations about getting member internet service providers (ISPs) to implement the filter.

The Australian Public Is Largely Unoffended By RC’d Video Games
Mark Serrels Kotaku AU March 23

David Weisbrot
March 22, 2012 Opinion
....Might journalists, political activists or others seek to obtain a candidate's hair, saliva or blood surreptitiously and submit it for testing? This would amount to a crime in 10 US states, but not federally - and not in Australia, despite the acceptance of an Australian Law Reform Commission recommendation to this effect by the Howard government in 2005 that has still not been acted upon.
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