This report makes 48 recommendations with a particular focus on fraud, financial abuse, substitute decision making, and family agreements.

From the report's foreword:

While Australia has a relatively sophisticated public and private health care system, for some people geographic isolation inhibits their access to specialist health care. Out of a total population of just over 21 million, approximately 34 per cent of Australians reside in regional, rural and remote areas with limited specialist health services. While Australia has...

This law reform blueprint contains 301 proposals for overhauling Australia’s complex and costly privacy laws and practices. The ALRC proposes a single set of privacy principles for information-handling across all sectors and all levels of government, making it easier and less expensive for organisations to comply and much more simple for people to understand their...

Private activities and government regulatory actions or inaction can have impacts on the environment and on human health. Scientific uncertainty about such impacts compounds the problems that confront policymakers. In environmental and natural resource management areas subject to scientific uncertainty, policy development can be enhanced by clarifying precautionary decision making processes, and the role of...