2016
In 2016, our core federal policy areas included:
- Access to justice;
- Counter-terrorism legislation;
- Migration and asylum;
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS); and
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and related state-based legislative change;
- Insurance and superannuation.
Here is an overview listing of all submissions provided in 2016.
| Submission | To | Date |
|---|---|---|
Vilification laws (NSW) |
NSW Department of Justice | 8 January 2016 |
National Injury Insurance Scheme Inquiry into a fair and balanced model for implementing the National Injury Insurance Scheme
|
Queensland Parliament Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee |
8 January 2016 |
Human Rights |
Queensland Parliament Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee | April 2016 |
Access to justice |
NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on the Legislative Council Committee System |
7 April 2016 |
Human rights Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment |
Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs |
8 April 2016 |
Access to justice |
NSW Law Reform Commission | 8 April 2016 |
Compensation |
NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority | 8 April 2016 |
Scrutiny of financial advice Additional terms of reference - submission on life insurance industry |
Senate Standing Committee on Economics |
15 April 2016 |
National Injury Insurance Scheme Submission on the National Injury Insurance Scheme (Queensland) Bill 2016 |
Queensland Parliament Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee | May 2016 |
Compensation First review of Compulsory Third Party (CTP) insurance scheme |
NSW Standing Committee on Law and Justice | 13 May 2016 |
Compensation |
NSW Law Reform Commission | 25 May 2016 |
Compensation |
Ms Carmel Donnelly, Executive Director, Workers and Home Building Compensation Regulation, State Insurance Regulatory Authority, NSW Goverment | 21 June 2016 |
National Injury Insurance Scheme |
Queensland Parliament Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee |
July 2016 |
Royal Commission |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |
1 July 2016 |
Insurance |
Australian Bankers Association Independent review of product sales commissions and product based payments |
29 July 2016 |
Insurance |
NSW CTP Reform Reference Panel | 29 July 2016 |
Access to justice |
Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee of the Queensland Parliament |
8 August 2016 |
Insurance |
NSW CTP Reform Reference Panel | 23 August 2016 |
Insurance Legal Profession response to CTP Reform Consultation Observations |
NSW CTP Reform Reference Panel CTP Reform Consultation Observations - 2 September 2016 |
9 September 2016 |
Limitations Periods |
Parliament of Queensland Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee | 16 September 2016 |
Insurance |
Motor Accident Insurance Commission | 16 September 2016 |
Criminal Justice Community Reporting (Offender Reporting) Amendment Bill: paper outlining concerns |
Parliament of Tasmania | 21 September 2016 |
Human Rights Joint Submission for the United Kingdom's Universal Periodic Review in 2017 |
United Nations Human Rights Council | September 2016 |
Child Abuse |
Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General | October 2016 |
Law reform |
Law Reform and Sentencing Council Secretariat, Strategy and Policy Unit, NSW Department of Justice | 5 October 2016 |
Workers compensation (NSW) |
Standing Committee on Law and Justice | 10 October 2016 |
Criminal Justice Criminal Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2016 |
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security | 12 October 2016 |
Workers' compensation (SA) |
SA Occupational Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Committee |
31 October 2016 |
Royal Commission Criminal Justice: Response to Consultation Paper And subsequent appearance at public hearing, on 1 December 2016. (Dr Andrew Morrison SC can be read from p24169.) |
Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse | 31 October 2016 |
Asylum Seekers And ALA's subsequent appearance before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, on 15 November 2016. Supplementary submission:
Appendix to supplementary submission 2. Urgent: risk of cadmium poisoning on Nauru (submitted on 24 February 2017) |
Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs | 7 November 2016 |
Asylum Seekers Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2016 [Provisions] |
Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs | 14 November 2016 |
Financial Services Inquiry into the life insurance industry And subsequent appearance at public hearing, on 24 February 2017. (Josh Mennen, ALA spokesperson on insurance and superannuation, can be read from p18.) |
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services | 18 November 2016 |
Compensation |
NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority | 25 November 2016 |
Workers compensation (NSW) Joint letter regarding the first review of the workers' compensation scheme |
Standing Committee on Law and Justice, NSW Legislative Council | 30 November 2016 |
Royal Commission |
Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse | 2 December 2016 |
Police oversight (Victoria) |
Integrity Reform Team, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet | 8 December 2016 |
Human Rights Inquiry into the freedom of speech in Australia And subsequent appearance at public hearing, on 1 February 2017. (Anna Talbot, ALA Legal and Policy Adviser, can be read from p27.) |
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights | 9 December 2016 |
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