🇦🇺 Australia

Data-protection & privacy developments in Australia (Asia-Pacific). Auto-maintained from the daily feeds; add curated notes freely.

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• 2026-09-04 New Rules Of Engagement: Australia’s Draft Privacy Bill And What It Means For Your Business — Australia’s privacy framework is about to undergo its most significant transformation in nearly four decades. On August 31, 2026, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland released the exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 (the Bill), together with a consultation paper (the Consultation Paper)….By: A&O Shearman (Privacy RSS Feed)
• 2026-09-04 Australia: Privacy Reform – Consultation Draft Outlines Proposed Next Steps — A consultation draft has been published outlining a number of major reforms to the Australian privacy framework. If implemented in its current form, the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 (Amendment Bill) would significantly reshape how Australian businesses collect, use, disclose and protect personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)….By: DLA Piper (Privacy RSS Feed)
• 2026-09-03 Navigating Australian Privacy Reform: Your Guide To The Changes Ahead — Understand what changes have been announced, what is still to come, and what to do next - Almost a year after the Government announced that it agreed or agreed in-principle with 106 of the 116 recommended reforms in the Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Report 2022, A ‘Tranche 1’ Bill has been introduced to address a suite of those recommendations….By: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (Privacy RSS Feed)
• 2026-09-02 The draft Tranche 2 Privacy Act Reforms: What’s There, What’s New And What’s Missing? — Australia’s privacy reform agenda has entered its next phase. Almost two years after a relatively modest set of Privacy Act reforms were passed in late 2024 (Tranche 1 Reforms) (more on these here), the Australian Government has released an exposure draft of the more substantial Tranche 2 reforms, in the form of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 (Cth) (Draft Bill)….By: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (Privacy RSS Feed)
• 2026-09-04 Australia to enforce a social media ban for children will it achieve its goals (IAPP — News)
• 2026-09-04 Australia publishes initial proposals for second wave of privacy act reforms (IAPP — News)
• 2026-09-04 Top operational impacts of reforms to the australian privacy act (IAPP — News)