Media & Communications

Find out what the ACCC, ACMA, OAIC and eSafety (Digital Platform Regulators forum) consider are the key issues for the safe deployment of AI in Australia.

Extensive reforms of significance to media and internet businesses have been proposed in the Privacy Act Review Report released in February 2023 (the 2023 Privacy Report). Submissions on the proposals in the report closed on 31 March 2023 and the reform process is likely to continue...

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Administrative Law 2.4 “Judicial Review of Administrative Action: Reviewable Decisions, Conduct and Powers and General Grounds”; Administrative Law 2.6 “Remedies in Judicial Review”; Communications 6.4 “Consumer...

ALJR Editors John Carroll and Colleen Tognetti on High Court highlights for August

Check out Practical Law's brand new standard document Concerns notice and Letter of offer to make amends together with the refreshed Defamation and Defamation defences practice notes.

Online defamation in the spotlight. The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee recommends that the Senate passes the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2022 (Cth) subject to three key amendments.

Practical Law Commercial has released a brand new resource, Legal update: Sportsbet to pay $3.7 million in penalties and refunds for alleged contraventions of the Spam Act.

Online defamation in the spotlight. The Australian Government has released the exposure draft of the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021 (Cth) to unmask online authors of defamatory comments on social media.

New Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) and the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (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.

Practical Law Commercial have released a brand new resource, Legal Update, Social Media (Basic Expectations and Defamation) Bill 2021 (Cth) to make social media service providers liable for defamatory content posted on their platforms.