Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead (2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and
Society (AIES’20), February 7–8, 2020) by Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk comments The ‘robot rights’ debate, and its related question of ‘robot responsibility’, invokes some
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TEQSA
The Education Department’s ‘Modernising and Strengthening TEQSA’s
Powers’ Consultation Paper embodies a very belated recognition of defective governance in the tertiary education sector.
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FOI
The Commonwealth Attorney-General last week announced that The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act 1982 to ensure our FOI framework works in the interests of all Australians.
The Government’s changes will ensure genuine requests…
NZ Human Rights and Gender Identity
The NZ Law Commission
Ia Tangata: Protections in the Human Rights
Act 1993 for people who are
transgender, people who are
non-binary and people with
innate variations of sex
characteristics report features 27
recommendations to the Government on how the…
Flameout
In Hepburn SC v Coward [2025] VCAT 784 the Tribunal – following up Hepburn SC v Coward [2024] VCAT 517 – states Maureen Coward alleges that the Tribunal has no jurisdiction over her to hear and determine a prosecution for contempt…
Prediction
‘Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data’ by Rainer Mühlhoff in (2012) Big Data And Society comments Big data and artificial intelligence pose a new challenge for data protection as these techniques allow predictions…
Rights
‘In the name of nature: Making the League of Nations, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal and international law’ by
Tim Lindgren in Leiden Journal of International Law comments In 1919, the League of Nations and the Mandate System were established…
Medical Device Regulation
The TGA report Clarifying and strengthening the regulation of Medical Device Software including Artificial Intelligence states In the 2024-25 federal Budget, the Australian Government provided $39.9 million over 5 years for the development of policy and capability across government to support…
Deaths
‘The Law of Digital Resurrection’ by Victoria Haneman in (2025) 66(5) Boston College Law Review 1569-1626 comments The digital right to be dead has yet to be recognized as an important legal right. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and nanotechnology have progressed…