Why This Issue Hits Home for Every Entrepreneur Running a business—whether you’re a solo operator or leading a small-to-medium team—means making thousands of decisions and managing endless moving parts. Yet one area many entrepreneurs overlook is also one of the simplest to fix: having clear, written Terms and Conditions (T&Cs). Maybe you’ve been there: a [...]
From 10 June 2025, Australian privacy law has taken a major step forward with the introduction of the statutory tort of invasions of privacy. This reform gives individuals new and direct rights to take legal action in court – something previously unavailable under Australia’s privacy regime. In this blog, we break this change down into [...]
The Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) require an APP entity (essentially not a small business) to have a clearly expressed and up-to-date privacy policy (APP privacy policy) describing how it manages personal information. The APP privacy policy must be based on and reflect the practices, procedures and systems that the APP entity has implemented to ensure [...]
On 12 January 2022, changes were made to the current ‘mandatory vaccination’ orders in Victoria. If you are an employer or a worker in aged-care or healthcare, covered by the ‘Specified Facilities’ Order, the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ now includes a booster shot (3rd dose of a recognised COVID-19 vaccine). Similarly, some industries (but not [...]
