Today, the Albanese Government has released a consultation paper and draft legislation to modernise and strengthen Australia’s privacy laws for the digital age. The reforms will bolster privacy protections for Australians and help tackle emerging risks from new technologies including Artificial Intelligence, and wearable devices such as smart glasses.

The Albanese Government is strengthening Australia's identity protection framework with the introduction of IDLock, a new digital identity protection service designed to give Australians direct control over how their identity documents are used for verification.

The Albanese Government has opened public consultation today on reforms to strengthen Australia's world-leading legislative response to modern slavery in supply chains.

Under the Albanese Government’s leadership, critical ‘banned in one, banned in all’ legislation is now in place across all states and territories.