Posts tagged "attorney-general"

The federal government says the small business exemption to the Privacy Act, covering some 2.3 million enterprises, should end.

Small businesses should not be excluded from data privacy laws, but those exemptions should only be removed once independent businesses are capable of meeting their new cyber security obligations, according to an influential report destined to reshape and modernise Australia's data privacy legislation.

Mark Dreyfus has commended women who have come forward with stories about their experience of workplace sexual harassment, at a gathering in Sydney on Thursday.

Senator Cash said the feedback would help the government decide on the next steps to consider the legal frameworks protecting people from sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.

Stuart Robert takes over as Minister for Small Business, while Christian Porter will be Minister for Industry, Science and Tech.

Attorney-General Christian Porter's draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission is promising, but also has big problems.

New wage theft scandals are unlikely to be the last, as corporate Australia reckons with one of the worst worker exploitation scandals in recent memory.

Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.

The government’s threat of jail for bosses engaging in wage theft may be a PR exercise designed to camouflage the blow of big hits to come for workers.

In a ridiculous start to the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s hearings into Attorney-General George Brandis’ mass surveill…

Australian businesses are under attack. A new report from the Attorney-General’s office has found major businesses are suffering attacks res…

Privacy advocates have expressed their concern over a draft consultation paper that was posted in error on the Attorney-General’s website th…