This consultation paper seeks community views on a staged approach to considering implementation of the civil surveillance reforms recommended by the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC). It also seeks feedback on the workability of those aspects of the QLRC draft Bill that impose the use prohibitions and communication or publication prohibitions.

In order to determine the attitudes of Australians towards freedom of speech, the Centre for Independent Studies commissioned YouGov to poll 2169 Australians in December 2022, with the data weighted by a number of factors, including age, gender, education, socio-economic status and religion. This resultant paper provides an important insight into just what Australians think...

Recognising the important role of banks in scam prevention, detection and response, ASIC conducted a review of the four major banks' activities in these areas. The review focused on the major banks with the expectation that they should have the most mature and effective policies, processes and practices in relation to scams.

This report reveals that Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022, as government, law enforcement and the private sector look to improve collaborative efforts to support the community in the fight against scams.

This submission specifically draws attention to the issues relevant to people with disability in the UN's Draft General Comment of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), which does not yet explicitly discuss the unique factors which underpin and shape the deprivation of liberty and treatment of people with disability.