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Prime Minister Albanese's speech on 15 July 2026 marked a decisive shift in Australia's approach to artificial intelligence, from voluntary guidance to mandatory national regulation. The announcement establishes Australian Standards for AI, copyright licensing requirements, a national planning framework for data centres, energy obligations, and workplace protections—all underpinned by the concept of sovereign AI.

The Advisory Council on Intellectual Property has released its Report into Patentable Subject Matter, and its recommendations, while not radical, would go some way to clarifying the law of patents in Australia if adopted. Of particular interest is the new exclusion from patentability that it proposes, which could have significant effects on the patentability of biological materials.

To coincide with the release of the Narnia film, Scottish parents Richard and Gillian Saville-Smith purchased their son the domain name "Narnia.mobi".

The following FocusPaper provides a broad overview of ICANN’s newly proposed procedure for the introduction of additional top-level domain names to the Internet.

LinkedIn can be a valuable business and professional development tool and provides a connect with colleagues and clients.

This case shows that it is possible to establish causation when a statistical correlation is supported by common sense.

Before signing a lease for a data centre, there are several property and legal traps which should be examined first. .

Well April and May have been very busy in start-up land!

Submarine cables which carry internet and telecommunications data are inadequately protected under international law.

NSW hotels need to be proactive with their marketing strategies to compete with Airbnb and short-term letting providers.

Australia's privacy regulator has issued final guidance on new transparency obligations for automated decision-making systems. From December 2026, organisations using computer programs—including AI, algorithms, and everyday software—to make or inform significant decisions about individuals must disclose these practices in their privacy policies. The guidance reveals a broader compliance burden than many expect, particularly for businesses using automated tools across recruitment, pricing, credit

The article includes a summary of the corporate activity in Australia in recent years around data analytics or big data.

A recent decision of the NSW Court of Appeal has applied the 2008 decision of the Victorian Court of Appeal in Environmental Systems Pty Ltd v Peerless Holdings Pty Ltd which effectively created a new definition of "consequential loss".

Google was ordered to pay damages for defamation, finding that the search engine was a publisher of the search results.

Choosing the wrong Australian corporate immigration law firm does not just slow down a visa application. It can expose your organisation to sponsor compliance risk, leave skilled workers stranded mid-process...