The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024, which would introduce a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy, is now undergoing a round of consultation which closes on 11th ...

Further to the recent comments made by the Federal Court on the use of direct speech in affidavit evidence, the New South ...

The Trends Report also underscored the importance of data breach response readiness and recommended that public sector entities undertake regular data breach simulations to test their data breach ...

Presently, the OAIC can only seek civil penalty orders where there have been serious interferences with privacy. This is a ...

The 2024 Hydrogen Strategy sets out the vision for hydrogen in Australia, which is for a “clean, innovative, safe and competitive hydrogen industry that benefits Australia’s communities and economy, ...

The Commissioner has said that prior to commencing this compliance program, he will be providing taxpayers with a penalty tax ...

The removal of a concentration-based threshold and reliance on monetary thresholds is an improvement for businesses – monetary thresholds are substantially more objective and will make notification ...

Employers in Queensland now have a specific positive obligation to proactively manage the risk of sexual harassment or sex-based harassment in the workplace, and must prepare a “Prevention Plan” to ...

Responsible entities not only must submit their first annual report on their CIRMP by 28 September 2024, but will now fa ...

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Applicants will no longer be ordered to pay a respondent’s costs where the applicant is unsuccessful in unlawful ...