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New legislation information and case annotations have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on Tu'uta Katoa v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] HCA 28, under section 477A of the Migration Act 1958.

New South Wales is the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme for its public sector agencies following the assent of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Act 2022 (NSW) on 28 November 2022.

After securing a deal in the Senate, the federal Government has passed the largest suite of reforms to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act)

Victor Kline looks at an important and novel decision recently reported in the authorised FCRs: Bazzi v Dutton

Victor Kline looks at an important and novel decision recently reported in the authorised FCRs: Commissioner of Patents v Thaler

The latest decisions from the High Court of Australia, reviewed by our team of ALJR reporters…

Get up to speed on the key findings of the Australian Cyber Security Centre's Cyber Threat Report for July 2021 to June 2022.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Administrative Law 2.8 “Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries”; Civil Procedure 5.10 “Limitation of Actions”; Insurance and Income Security 22.1 “Insurance”

On 27 October 2022, the proposed reforms to the unfair contract terms regime were passed by both Houses of Parliament.

In the wake of recent serious data breaches in Australia, the Federal government has introduced a bill amending the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 and the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 to increase penalties up to 50 million.

Sharon Christensen reviews developments in conveyancing law in Queensland during 2022 and looks ahead to what is on the horizon for 2023.