The ACL is Australia's primary consumer protection law, regulating goods and services and providing consumers with rights of ...

We've explored some of the challenges of AI implementation, from navigating the different perspectives on AI in your organisation to managing the many moving parts. In the last article in the series, ...

In ASIC's 2025 update on licensing and professional registration activities published on 10 November 2025, ASIC acknowledges the 31 March 2026 expiry date, but states that it will announce its ...

Rod Halstead is consistently rated amongst the top Australian lawyers for mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and governance. He has more than 40 years' experience advising major domestic and ...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly shifted from a niche technology to a central driver of business transformation and efficiency. In just a few years, organisations have adopted a vast array of ...

The AER currently operates as a combined entity with the ACCC under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, with the ACCC Chair serving as its accountable authority. However, ...

To use the newly introduced “public interest defence”, it's vitally important for a publisher to demonstrate that the steps they took to inform themselves of matters relevant to their belief were ...

After a frantic evening in the Senate last night, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024 was passed with no amendments. From 1 January 2026, merger parties that ...

The task facing the WA public sector in readying itself for the new PRIS laws is a considerable one, particularly given the retrospectivity of some of the IPPs. For the first time, the WA public ...

Similar in many ways to the notifiable data breaches scheme under the Commonwealth privacy regime, IPP Entities will need to have appropriate policies and procedures in place to meet new notification ...