The Albanese government is being grilled on the fate of an MP charged with assaulting a public official.

The decision to grant him parole rests with the Commonwealth.

The former military lawyer was convicted in 2024 for stealing and sharing top-secret defence material with journalists.

The attorney-general has tasked the privacy commissioner with examining the implications of smart glasses as community concern grows over their improper use.

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Speaking recently with Lawyers Weekly, A-G Rowland – who is also the federal member of parliament for the north-western Sydney seat of Greenway – said that, since stepping into the role of Australia’s ...

Cheap smart glasses from Kmart have forced Australia’s stalled privacy law reforms back into focus, with the federal government pressing the national regulator to urgently assess whether further ...

Attorney-general Michelle Rowland has penned a letter to privacy commissioner Carly Kind regarding possible privacy concerns flagged by the community over the use of smart glasses, which are embedded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland says the blocking of cabinet documents in legal proceedings is not ‘novel’. Picture: NewsWire / ...

In late January, the Albanese government passed what it called the toughest federal hate crime laws in Australia’s history, introducing far-reaching reforms across criminal, migration, firearms and ...

The federal government has asked the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion not to release documents related to counterterror resourcing. Attorney ...