Navigating Australian Privacy Reform: Your Guide To The Changes Ahead

Almost a year after the Government announced that it agreed or agreed in-principle with 106 of the 116 recommended reforms in the Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Report 2022¹, A ‘Tranche 1’ Bill has been introduced to address a suite of those recommendations. Many of the proposed reforms have however been deferred, with a draft of Tranche 2 to be developed for further consultation at a later stage.

For our detailed commentary on the Tranche 1 Bill, see here.

Together, the reforms in Tranche 1 and especially Tranche 2 (if it proceeds) represent be the most significant changes to Australian privacy law since the 2014 reforms which introduced the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).