The past twelve months have seen significant activity by the Commonwealth government in its efforts to progress reforms to the regulatory framework of Australia’s critical infrastructure to uplift the security and resilience of essential services in Australia.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has finalised consultation with its stakeholders to provide the new Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021 which repeals the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (No. 2) 2018 and will commence on 1 January 2022.
On 28 October 2021, the ACCC published Digital platform services inquiry: Interim report No. 3 – Search defaults (third interim report) and choice screens as part of its Digital platform services inquiry 2020-2025.
Practical Law Commercial have released a new resource, Legal Update, QAD Inc v Shepparton Partners Collective Operations Pty Ltd (sale of business, software licensing and copyright infringement).
A recent determination of the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) has found that Clearview AI interfered with the privacy of Australians by engaging in the practice of scraping images of individual’s faces from publicly available websites, such...
The allocation of director identification numbers (DINs) by the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) commenced on 1 November 2021. In this Practice note, the Practical Law Commercial team consider the data protection and privacy issues relevant to both directors and companies...
On 25 October 2021, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department released the long awaited Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper for public consultation. The Discussion Paper proposes wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
A recent decision by the Federal Court of Australia in Nassif v Seven Network (Operations) Ltd [2021] FCA 1286 highlights the consequences of sensationalist news stories in the context of defamation.
The volume of D&I information can be overwhelming for in-house lawyers to interpret. In a new D&I toolkit, Practical Law Australia provide a menu of D&I topics and resources that lawyers can trust, plus a quick guide to equal opportunity laws relevant to D&I.
Australia's foreign investment framework is complex. Practical Law's new resources help you understand the rules and whether your land or corporate transaction requires FIRB consent.
Practical Law Commercial have updated and enhanced the resource, Practice note, Goods and Services Tax (GST), to include additional guidance on key issues associated with the GST regime in Australia.
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