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

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...

The strategy is intended to facilitate development of a bipartisan, coordinated, long-term and multi-jurisdictional approach, working together to reduce the pressing and complex issues in Indigenous justice. There are four key law and justice issues highlighted: to increase actual and perceived safety; to reduce crime in communities and improve access to justice; to reduce imprisonment...

New tighter classification rules for publications, films and computer games are before parliament. The government says increased censorship is needed to counter terrorism and federal Labor has given its broad support, but the Australian Press Council says the new laws are dangerous.

The growth of child-inclusive family law dispute resolution in Australia represents a response to empirical and clinical evidence about its efficacy in the treatment of post-separation parental conflict. At the level of social justice, the approach represents a strategic extension of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, giving children the right...