A New Era for Privacy: The Statutory Tort of Invasions of Privacy

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 the privacy regime. Why This Reform Matters Until now, individuals who believed their privacy [...]

2025-08-25T00:32:00+00:00August 4th, 2025|Compliance, Data Protection, Dispute Resolution|Comments Off on A New Era for Privacy: The Statutory Tort of Invasions of Privacy

Does your business have an APP compliant privacy policy?

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 [...]

2025-03-11T22:15:10+00:00March 11th, 2025|Compliance, Data Protection|Comments Off on Does your business have an APP compliant privacy policy?

Changes to Victoria’s Pandemic Orders for “Specified Facilities” and “Specified Workers”

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 [...]

2022-01-30T22:35:48+00:00January 16th, 2022|Compliance, employees, Employment Law|Comments Off on Changes to Victoria’s Pandemic Orders for “Specified Facilities” and “Specified Workers”

The Top 4 Reasons Your Business Should Have a Workplace Vaccination Policy

Unless you have been living under a rock these past few weeks, you would know that there are several mandatory vaccination directions in place, which impact on how we live and work. It is likely that mandatory vaccination is going to stick around at least for the time being, and potentially well into 2022. Employers [...]

2021-11-14T22:33:06+00:00November 14th, 2021|Business Advice, Compliance, employees, Employment Law|Comments Off on The Top 4 Reasons Your Business Should Have a Workplace Vaccination Policy
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