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Australia’s Privacy Reforms: 5 Essential Steps for Businesses
As Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind emphasised, ‘2025 is going to be a big year for privacy and enforcement action’. Most of the new...
Your Disciplinary Process and Procedure can Cause Psychiatric Injury: Are You Prepared?
This is a significant decision in this area, as the Court set aside the orders of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of...
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Rare, But it Does Happen: Terminating a Retirement Village Residence Contract — The Bethanie Group Inc and Kinnane [2023] WASAT 136
By David McMullen and Ryan Hewitt Background The Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) (“RV Act”) gives the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT)...
Court finds that the NDIS Act does not confer a right to payment for providers
The decision in Affinity Care Services Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Balmerino Australia Trust v National Disability Insurance Agency [2024] FCA 1314...
Aged Care Act 2024: An Overview for Providers
This new rights-based Act aims to address key recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The promise is that: ‘It...
Aged Care Act 2024: The Support at Home Program
Quicker Access to Services Additional funding will be allocated in the first two years of the new program to improve service delivery. By 1 July...
First substantive case law decision in relation to a damaging action claim
This is currently the third decision in this area, since damaging action was introduced into the Industrial Relations Act 1979 (WA) (IR Act) on 20...
Upcoming Changes to WA’s Industrial Relations System
Some of the key changes include: Introducing a Statutory Test for ‘characterising’ work Relationships Section 7A will be inserted into the...
Australia is ‘Revving Up’ its Privacy Protections – What Businesses Need to Know
The Bill implements 23 of 25 legislative changes arising from the Commonwealth Government’s 2023 response to the Attorney-General’s Department...
Retirement Villages Amendment Act 2024 – A Handy Guide
Background – This has been a long time coming The Retirement Villages Amendment Bill 2024 (WA) passed through WA Parliament on on 5 November 2024. A...