Index of material on Privacy

This website contains a number of articles and references to issues of personal privacy and the press. These include:

Privacy Standards

The code of privacy standards agreed to by print media members of the Press Council can be found on this site, together with a list of the organisations subscribing.

in the FoP section:

Links to websites dealing with privacy matters

2006-2007 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2005-2006 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2004-2005 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2003-2004 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2002-2003 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2001-2002 report on free speech issues in Annual Report - on privacy

2000-2001 Freedom of the Press summary - on privacy

1999-2000 Freedom of the Press summary - on privacy

1998-99 Freedom of the Press summary - on privacy

1997-98 Freedom of the Press summary - on privacy

Australian press law article: privacy

Press Council positions:
Privacy - basic position
Privacy legislation
Privacy - surveillance devices
Privacy of grief

Submissions:

Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice Inquiry into the Prohibition on the Publication of Names of Children Involved in Criminal Proceedings.

Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission in response to its Discussion Paper 72, Review of Australian Privacy Law.

Submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission in response to Consultation Paper 1, Invasion of Privacy.

Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its issues paper, Review of Privacy.

Submission to the Queensland Law Reform Commission on its discussion paper, Confidentiality in the Guardianship System: Public Justice, Private Lives.

Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of the Privacy Act.

Submission to the NSW government on its review of the Adoption Act.

Submission to the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General in response to its discussion paper Unauthorised photographs on the Internet and ancillary privacy issues.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee on its review of the Privacy Act

Submission to the Privacy Commissioner on its review of the public sector provisions of the Privacy Act

Submission to Victorian Attorney-General on surveillance devices

Submission to the federal Attorney-General on proposed legislation for privacy in the private sector

Submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission on its report on possible reforms of surveillance devices legislation (supplementary to an earlier general submission).

Speeches from Press Council and other forums:

Ken McKinnon's 2005 speech to the CPU on the threats to the press from a developing tort of privacy.

Privacy: balancing individual rights and freedom of expression
David Chipp, UK Press Complaints Commission

articles in the APC News:

Public Figures and the Press
A report on a Press Council public meeting.

Stories for Sale
Prof David Flint's February 1995 column looks at, inter alia, a privacy issue

Privacy and Information Technology
David Cosgrave looks at privacy issues relevant to new technology

A Right to Privacy
Prof David Flint's May 1997 column looks at two recent adjudications on privacy matters

Regional Press and Privacy
Deborah Kirkman's report of a Public Forum

Privacy and the Press
Lord Wakeham's APC Fellow's address

Council's rulings on privacy complaints

Dennis Pearce's "Is Privacy Dying?"

Letters to the Editor - February 1999 -
Jason Beck on "intrusive" pictures

Chris McLeod on privacy laws

Privacy discussion at the WAPC Oceania Regional Conference, Brisbane, June 1999

News on Federal privacy legislation aimed at the private sector.

Privacy (Private Sector) Act
New legislation has implications for the press.

Balancing Privacy and the public interest
The Chairman looks at Adjudication No 1117

New policies on privacy and Surveillance Device legislation

New policy on privacy - November 2005

The Chairman comments on two recent adjudciations about privacy rights

Privacy Issues (a submission)

Doe v ABC - a case note
A recent privacy case.

The 'public interest' defence
Professor HP Lee looks at an aspect of the Council's adjudications on privacy matters.

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