A Senate Committee has approved a Bill to expand the safe harbour regime under the Copyright Act and the Federal Government has closed consultation on the effectiveness of site blocking legislation. ...

After a considerable gestation period the proposed new design and distribution obligations for financial products, and intervention powers for ASIC, took their first, tentative steps yesterday, with the release of exposure draft legislation. ...

Two recent trade mark disputes illustrate that even where marks share similar elements, they are unlikely to be deceptively similar if the overall impression created by each mark is substantially different. ...

Optus has become the first organisation to enter into an enforceable undertaking with the Privacy Commissioner since reforms to the Privacy Act took effect in March 2014 Partner Michael Pattison and Associate Byron Frost examine the circumstances surrounding Optuss voluntary data breach ...

ASIC's latest report, ASIC's recent greenwashing interventions (the Report), outlines its recent surveillance activities and regulatory interventions to tackle misleading marketing and greenwashing. ...

The transactions are the first for the Fund, established as part of Queensland's critical minerals strategy, and involves QIC extending its investment expertise into the mining and mineral processi ...

A lot can change in a short time, particularly in infrastructure, and staying on top of those changes can be a challenge.Each year, Allens and Infrastructure Partnerships Australia co-author the Infrastructure Investment Monitor—a review of the investment trends in the infrastructure landscape—and ...

The recently passed Petroleum Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 (WA) (the Bill) is landmark legislation that establishes a carbon capture and storage (CCS) regulatory regime on and under the lands, coas ...

In our latest update, we examine the progress of new and existing rule change requests to the AEMC across the month of March, as well as take a closer look at the AER's review of its Compliance Procedures and Guidelines. ...

In this Insight, we examine the differences between the various judges' reasoning and lay out what the implications are in practice. ...