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Australians would be able to demand companies delete their personal information under a European-style overhaul of privacy laws.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus yesterday released a report with 30 proposals for updating Australia’s privacy regime. The proposals are practical, necessary and overdue. However, they are just proposals, which have been made several times in the past before disappearing into the “too hard basket” of the Australian, state and territory governments.

If these brave people are punished for doing the right thing, it will cloud the Albanese government’s legacy

Recent murders of police officers at Wieambilla highlight need for action to protect community safety, Anthony Albanese says

There is much to be excited about in Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’s draft Family Law Amendment Bill 2023, the first in a projected series of reforms that promise to put children’s needs and interests back at the centre of family law.

David Shoebridge says employment-related complaints should also be protected as whistleblowers ‘too often lose their careers from speaking out’

The government hopes the change will make the family law less confrontational and less apt to be used as a means for harassment.

The federal government plans to reform the strained family law system, including removing the presumption that both parents should be considered equally in parenting disagreements.

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