• Privacy Reforms – Why You Need to Update Your Privacy Policies and Practices - Reforms to the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles are coming. These changes mean that APP Entities will need to update their privacy policies, and their practices, with the privacy regulator having more enforcement options available to it and a predisposition to commencing more proceedings.
• Security of Payment: The Curious Case of a Cross-Border Project - Construction works undertaken at the Gold Coast airport, which uniquely sits on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, poses an interesting question as to the appropriate jurisdiction for Security of Payment disputes on cross-border projects. The case of Lendlease Building Pty Ltd v BCS Airport Systems Pty Ltd & Ors [2024] QSC found that in determining the location of cross-border construction works, the geographical focus (and therefore the appropriate territorial nexus) is the building, structure or other work – not the individual activity undertaken.