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14/07/2025

Damages for Psychiatric Injury in the Workplace: Elisha v Vision Australia

Last December, the High Court handed down a decision with significant implications for both employers and employees. In Elisha v Vision Australia Ltd [2024] HCA 5, the Court held that ...
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06/02/2025

Senate report on AI: Protecting Australian creatives and their work

Amid the uncertainty surrounding the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on creative professionals, the Parliament has made a significant move to safeguard the rights of Australian workers. ...
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12/12/2024

Applying for the Producer Offset? Don’t make this mistake.

On 18 September 2024, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) handed down its decision in Fragmentary v Screen Australia [2024] AATA 3316. The case involved a company which had applied to ...
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15/10/2024

First Round of Major Changes to Australian Privacy Law

As of 11 October 2024 Although Australia was once considered an early adopter of privacy law when we enacted the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the “Act”) back in the eighties, ...
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17/09/2024

Industry update: new Screen NSW funding guidelines

As of 17 September 2024 New Screen NSW funding guidelines in place since 14 August 2024 Screen NSW has recently updated its funding guidelines in line with its 10-year Creative ...
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23/08/2024

Industry update: new Location Offset now legislated

As of 21 August 2024   The increased 30% Location Offset is now in effect   Following an extensive consultation process about the various offsets available to the Australian screen industry, the ...
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11/06/2024

‘Closing Loopholes’ legislation implemented – are you up to date?

The Australian Government has passed various new workplace laws as part of its 2-part suite of ‘Closing Loopholes’ legislation. These amendments are being progressively rolled out between December 2023 and ...
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23/04/2024

Changes to EMDG Program recently tabled

Following a detailed review and consultation process, the Australian Government recently tabled its amendments to the Export Market Develop Grants (EMDG) Program. Read on to find out what the Export ...
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12/04/2024

AANA releases new Children’s Advertising Code

Following a review announced in June 2022, the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has now updated the Children’s Advertising Code in an effort to strengthen the safeguards for advertising ...
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02/04/2024

With changes to fixed-term contracts in place, still uncertainty for the film and TV industry

In an effort to increase gender equality and job security, the Australian Government introduced the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 (“Amendment”) to the Fair Work ...
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10/11/2023

Management Agreements and the Entertainment Industry Act

Since the new legislation has been enacted, do I have to change my management agreement? Are my old contracts void? Management agreements have been given a workover in the new ...
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10/11/2023

The GDPR and Australian Businesses

There has been a lot of interest and concern in Australia about the applicability and impact of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR), which came into force on ...
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