Project No. 53

Commenced: 1974
Completed: 1980

The subject of the reference was relevant to the Commission’s reference on privacy, the terms of which included the question whether any changes in the law were required to provide protection against the disclosure of information given in confidence. The Commission’s terms of reference on privacy paralleled those given by the Commonwealth Attorney General to the Australian Law Reform Commission. Both references required the respective Commissions to have regard to the development of a uniform privacy law throughout Australia. The two Commissions agreed that the question of a journalist’s privilege would be considered in the course of the study on privacy.