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How can you protect your data from cyber incidents?

In the 2023-24 financial year, Australia saw nearly 94,000 reports of cybercrime submitted to the Australian Cyber Security Centre. This was a 23% increase compared to the previous year.  The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) received over 36,700 calls to its Australian Cybersecurity Hotline, an increase of 12% from the previous financial year. The ASD also …
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Does your organisation understand its whistleblower obligations?

Whistleblowers play an important role in recognising and reporting misconduct and breaches of the law by organisations. The Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act) contains a whistleblower protection scheme that imposes obligations on many organisations in relation to the handling of whistleblower disclosures.

A tale of two intertwining records 

The CEO of Services Australia (Agency) has recently been found by the Australian Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) to have interfered with a customer’s privacy after a series of issues involving the Agency intertwining customer records.  

Flexible Meeting Arrangements – Government announces support for retaining flexibility

On 4 February 2025 the Government released the Government response to the Statutory Review of the Meetings and Documents Amendments, 4 February 2025’ (the Government response).   In short there is support from the Panel and from the Government for the continuation of flexible meeting arrangements for most unlisted companies and associations.