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In Australia, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) was established in January 2013 to investigate the sexual abuse of children ...

This was an application under the GIPA Act (NSW) for information about sales under the FACS 99-year leasehold program.

The Bulletin includes links to recent media releases, reports, cases and legislation of interest to the NSW government.

New council rules are designed to reduce avoidable deaths and injuries to children in private swimming pools and spas.

Following "an avalanche of submissions", Senator Brandis is considering "water[ing] down" the proposed amendments.

The new Guidelines should be adopted by all NSW government agencies to implement a more sophisticated control framework.

This bulletin has links to recent media releases, reports, cases and legislation of interest to Qld government lawyers.

The NACC does not have the power to determine the criminal liability or penalty for the referred individuals.

A new set of Commonwealth Grant Guidelines (CGGs) took effect on 1 June 2013.

Giving evidence before the tribunal can be daunting, so this article is a quick guide to the process of giving evidence.

Governments at all levels and Government agencies frequently take legal advice either from their own in-house advisers or from external lawyers, assuming that legal professional privilege protects that advice from disclosure to litigants or those making an FOI request.

Without effective delegation, the Council still owed a duty of care to ensure the safety of users of the facility.

These decisions will affect the way in which WA local governments charge accused persons and serve prosecution notices.

Government reforms aim to provide further protection for consumers, since data breaches have become more frequent.

This Update sets out some of the key amendments to the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act 1985. The purpose of the amendments is to enable landlords and tenants to litigate disputes relating to unconscionable conduct in the State Administrative Tribunal.

Any laws introduced to curtail the harmful use of AI must be global to have any effect.

A determination recently issued by the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (OFPC) has highlighted the need for Federal Government agencies to carefully consider the best way to balance the competing obligations of protecting the privacy of their employees and customers, and the need to cooperate and share information with regulators.