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24 June 2019
Reminder to all Victorian Schools: new Guidelines to apply from 1 July 2019
Victorian schools should be aware that they must comply with the VRQA’s updated Guidelines to the Minimum Standards and Requirements for School Registration (Guidelines) by 1 July 2019.
While the Guidelines touch on many areas of school operations, we encourage schools to focus on the following key areas within this article.
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- Education & Early Childhood
24 June 2019
Child Safety in a Digital World – Are you following the trends?
It’s hard to keep up with the changing landscape of social media usage by children. The digital landscape is also making it harder to distinguish between “on school grounds” and “off school grounds”, raising the question – how far does your school’s duty of care extend?
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- Child Protection / Safety
- Education & Early Childhood
20 June 2019
Agreeing to be a Dad and donating sperm - what could go wrong?!
What happens when “Dad”, the sperm donor, who is registered on the birth certificate as Dad and has a close fatherly bond with a child, now 11, is faced with Mum and her same sex partner deciding to up and move to New Zealand, thus impacting his relationship with his child?
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- Family Law
20 June 2019
Error in your trust deed? Recent case clarifies the options
It is not uncommon to discover an error within a deed establishing a trust. The recent decision of the Federal Court in Trustee for the ‘Michael Hayes Family Trust v Commission of Taxation’ provides some helpful guidance on resolving such errors.
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- Estate Planning & Structuring
20 June 2019
Stopping re-traumatisation of victims in the family courts
The Family Courts will now take real steps to prevent victims of violence from being psychologically re-injured during court proceedings.
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- Family Law
13 June 2019
Westpac and ANU data breaches - What you can do to prevent these types of malicious attacks
The privacy of individuals and how organisations protect this privacy continue to gain attention in the media, with data breaches involving two prominent Australian organisations hitting the news in the last week.
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- Commercial / Corporate
- Privacy
11 June 2019
Case Review: Court dismissed an employee’s disability discrimination and victimisation claim
The Federal Court of Australia (the Court) has dismissed an employee’s disability discrimination and victimisation claims against his employer, a family law practice, finding that the employer did everything necessary to assist the employee to return to work following a major depressive episode.
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- Workplace Relations
6 June 2019
Top 10 tips for Enterprise Bargaining: Are you playing by the Rules?
Enterprise bargaining in Australia can resemble a blood sport – players jostle for position and try to land as many hits on their opponent as they can, with the ultimate goal to get the enterprise agreement over the line or kill a deal and limp off the field.
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- Workplace Relations
6 June 2019
Your HR Child Safety Checklist when Recruiting
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- Child Protection / Safety
6 June 2019
Fashion Crime – start-up penalised for unpaid internships and underpaying workers
A Sydney-based fashion industry start-up and its sole director have been ordered to pay over $300,000 in penalties for underpaying three workers more than $40,000, including engaging one worker as an unpaid intern when she was, in fact, a part-time employee.
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- Workplace Relations

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