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| Date | Details |
Issue
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|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | Changes to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules and other developments relevant to procurement | 332 |
| June 2025 | Ravbar & Anor v Commonwealth of Australia & Ors [2025] HCA 25 | 331 |
| June 2025 | Cyber risk model clauses | 330 |
| May 2025 | Babet and Anor v Commonwealth of Australia; Palmer v Commonwealth of Australia [2025] HCA 21 | 329 |
| May 2025 | Australian Securities and Investments Commission v SunshineLoans Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 32 | 328 |
| April 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) model clauses | 327 |
| December 2024 | Bird v DP (a pseudonym) [2024] HCA 41 | 326 |
| September 2024 | First tranche of privacy reforms tabled in Parliament | 325 |
| August 2024 | Electoral Commissioner of the Australian Electoral Commission v Laming [2024] FCAFC 109 | 324 |
| July 2024 | Key changes – Commonwealth Procurement Rules 2024 | 323 |
| June 2024 | Key changes – Lands Acquisition Delegation 2024 | 322 |
| May 2024 | Prosecution of Commonwealth bodies: High Court holds Director of National Parks can be liable for a Northern Territory offence | 321 |
| December 2023 | Permanent stays: High Court explains standard of appellate review and the relevance of loss of evidence in historical child abuse claims | 320 |
| December 2023 | High Court finds in favour of broad extraterritorial operation of unfair contract terms regime in the Australian Consumer Law | 319 |
| September 2023 | High Court rejects application of parliamentary privilege to a report prepared by a statutory agency for its supervisory parliamentary committee | 318 |
| September 2023 | Higher penalties possible for corporate offending | 317 |
| August 2023 | Public Interest Disclosure Act is subject to Parliamentary Privileges Act | 316 |
| June 2023 | Reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism commencing 1 July 2023 | 315 |
| June 2023 | Guidance on briefing expert witnesses – the recent decision in New Aim v Leung | 314 |
| February 2023 | Privacy Act Review Report released | 313 |
| January 2023 | Increase to the Public Works Committee medium works threshold | 312 |
| December 2022 | Repeal of the Building Code 2016 | 311 |
| November 2022 | Amendments to Privacy Act to increase penalties for privacy breaches, enhance powers of OAIC | 310 |
| October 2022 | APSC publishes Public Sector Interim Workplace Arrangements 2022 (Interim Arrangements) | 309 |
| August 2022 | Updates to the Building Code 2016 | 308 |
| April 2022 | Australian Building and Construction Commissioner v Pattinson [2022] HCA 13 | 307 |
| April 2022 | Australia’s autonomous sanctions regime | 306 |
| February 2022 | Federal Court rejects Facebook appeal, finds that Privacy Act may apply to companies with no physical presence in Australia | 305 |
| December 2021 | Tribunal decision finds ‘as required by law’ clause in contract does not displace operation of breach of confidence exemption in FOI Act | 304 |
| December 2021 | Federal Court confirms that Harman obligation does not constrain the use of subpoenaed documents in the exercise of statutory powers and duties | 303 |
| December 2021 | Fair Work Commission Full Bench finds vaccine mandate policy unreasonable due to failure to effectively consult | 302 |
| November 2021 | Land Acquisition Framework published by Department of Finance | 301 |
| September 2021 | The Voller High Court defamation decision – some implications | 299 |
| August 2021 | WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato [2021] HCA 23 | 297 |
| May 2021 | ACCC v Telstra [2021] FCA 502 | 296 |
| March 2021 | ACCC v Quantum Housing Group Pty Ltd [2021] FCAFC 40 | 295 |
| February 2021 | CUB Australia Holding v Commissioner of Taxation [2021] FCA 43 | 294 |
| December 2020 | Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 | 293 |
| December 2020 | Foreign investment reforms: passing of Act introduces new national security test | 292 |
| November 2020 | Chief Executive Officer, Services Australia and Justin Warren [2020] AATA 4557 | 291 |
| August 2020 | Plaintiff M83A/2019 v Morrison (No 2) [2020] FCA 1198 | 290 |
| August 2020 | Mondelez v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union Known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU); Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations v AMWU [2020] HCA 29 | 289 |
| May 2020 | Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia & Ors v Qantas Airways Limited [2020] FCA 656 | 288 |
| April 2020 | Commonwealth of Australia v Helicopter Resources Pty Ltd [2020] HCA 16 | 287 |
| April 2020 | Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Kinghorn; Kinghorn v Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) [2020] NSWCCA 48 | 286 |
| February 2020 | Aboriginal Australians are not within the reach of the ‘aliens’ power conferred by s 51(xix) of the Constitution: Love v Commonwealth; Thoms v Commonwealth [2020] HCA | 285 |
| January 2020 | ASIC v Helou [2019] FCA 1634 | 284 |
| November 2019 | HT v R [2019] HCA 40: High Court finds 'secret' evidence a step too far | 283 |
| November 2019 | Western Union Business Solutions (Australia) Pty Ltd v Robinson [2019] FCAFC 181 | 282 |
| October 2019 | 'Proportionality' in civil penalty cases – important developments | 281 |
| August 2019 | High Court confirms legal professional privilege a 'shield' not a 'sword' | 280 |
| August 2019 | Comcare v Banerji [2019] HCA 23 | 279 |
| June 2019 | Commonwealth of Australia not liable for economic loss arising from its administration of the Home Insulation Program | 278 |
| May 2019 | Keyzer v La Trobe University [2019] FCA 646 | 277 |
| December 2018 | Federal Court holds dismissal of an ill employee breached the Fair Work Act 2009 | 275 |
| November 2018 | AIT18 v Australian Information Commissioner [2018] FCAFC 192 | 274 |
| October 2018 | The Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Act 2018 (Cth) | 273 |
| October 2018 | John Nemcic v Australian Electoral Commission [2018] FWC 5645 | 272 |
| September 2018 | Update: special leave refused in relation to penalty privilege | 271 |
| May 2018 | High Court confirms that State tribunals cannot exercise judicial power in federal matters | 270 |
| April 2018 | Full Federal Court finds the Harman obligation does not constrain statutory power | 268 |
| March 2018 | Tribunal rules on FOI access to text messages | 267 |
| February 2018 | Penalty privilege is not available in a federal administrative context unless it is applied by statute: apparent tension in High Court authority resolved | 265 |
| February 2018 | High Court finds Federal Court has power to make a personal payment order against a contravening union official under the Fair Work Act 2009 | 264 |
| January 2018 | Commonwealth Government Business Enterprises – Governance and Oversight Guidelines | 263 |
| September 2017 | Full Federal Court clarifies when a psychological condition is an 'injury' or 'disease' under the SRC Act and how decisions ceasing entitlement to workers compensation can be approached | 261 |
| June 2017 | Whitebox proceeding has potential significance for Commonwealth civil regulators | 259 |
| June 2017 | The High Court considers 'market' for the purposes of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and when it is 'in Australia' | 258 |
| May 2017 | A current issue arising in ASIC v Whitebox (NSD383 of 2016) (Whitebox), with potential significance for other civil regulatory proceedings, has now been listed for separate hearing before the Full Court of the Federal Court on 8 June 2017 | 256 |
| May 2017 | The Full Court of the Federal Court clarifies the causal connection between 'administrative action' and a disease that is necessary to potentially exclude liability under the SRC Act | 255 |
| January 2017 | Full Federal Court hands down decision on definition of 'personal information' | 253 |
| November 2016 | The High Court clarifies the causal connection between 'administrative action' and a disease that is necessary to potentially exclude liability under the SRC Act | 251 |
| October 2016 | Administrative Appeals Tribunal awards $8,000 in compensation for interference with privacy | 250 |
| May 2016 | Release from the 'implied undertaking' for the purpose of a criminal investigation | 247 |
| March 2016 | Full Federal Court confirms 'legal unreasonableness' principles | 245 |
| March 2016 | Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015 to commence on 5 March | 244 |