The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme was introduced in 2018 with the purpose of bringing transparency to activities undertaken on behalf of foreign principals, particularly where those activities are intended to influence Australian political and governmental systems and processes. This report report makes 14 recommendations to improve the scheme and its administration.

The ALRC was asked to have regard to the Australian Government’s commitment to introduce legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religious belief or activity, subject to a number of appropriate exemptions, and to consider whether some or all of the reforms recommended as a result of this inquiry could be included in that...

The NSW Government seeks to reform emergency services levy funding to establish a fairer and more sustainable system. This document evaluates the government's case for legislative reform.

The Administrative Review Tribunal Bill represents a dramatic improvement on the politicised appointments process that undermined trust in and the operations of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. However, in this submission, the Australia Institute argues that further changes are needed to ensure that appointments to the ART are open and free from political influence.

This article is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and a journalist with prolific expertise and experience in media. The aim is to explain and clarify several pieces of Australian legislation and regulation and the free speech burdens it potentially imposes, to determine whether the laws are suitably targeted at preventing and...