[LINK] Various Commonwealth Parliament publications of interest

[Antony Barry]

>
Extracted from a posting by Roy Jordan Information Specialist Law and  
Bills Digest Section, Information and Research Services Parliamentary  
Library, Department of Parliamentary Services Parliament House,  
Canberra
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> Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the  
> Arts Legislation Committee re provisions of the Broadcasting Services  
> Amendment (Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2004 (Tabled 7 March 2005)
> http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/anti_siphon/index.htm

> Senate Environment Communications Information Technology and the Arts  
> References Committee re Inquiry into the powers of Australia's  
> communications regulators  (provisions of the Australian  
> Communications and Media Authority Bill 2004 and related bills and  
> matters) (Tabled 10 March 2005)
> http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/acma/index.htm

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> New Inquiries
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> 	• 	Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee. Inquiry into the  
> Privacy Act 1988.
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> On 9 December 2004, the Senate referred the above reference inquiry to  
> the Legal and Constitutional References Committee, for inquiry and  
> report by 30 June 2005.
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> Inquiry website, which already has several submissions, :  
> http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/privacy/index.htm
> 	• 	Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD.
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> Parliamentary Library Publications
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>  Do Australian's have a legal right to privacy? (Research Note 37).  
> Morag Donaldson, Law and Bills Digest Section.
>  This Research Note briefly examines the law of privacy in  
> Australia—both legislation and common law—to highlight the fact that  
> while the law is able to offer some protections, there is currently no  
> legal right to privacy. Although the courts are moving towards  
> recognising such a right, it could be some time before there is an  
> authoritative judicial decision in favour of a legal right to privacy  
> in Australia. Thus, Parliament might choose to legislate to grant  
> people such a right (on a conditional or absolute basis) if it  
> considered it to be appropriate. (2 pages)
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> http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn37.pdf
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