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""The Australian Law Reform Commission is an independent Australian Government agency that provides recommendations for law reform to Government on issues referred to it by the Attorney-General of Australia."

Access links to the various state law reform commissions and other useful information.

" ... Law reform is important to the legal system to ensure that laws reflect social and political developments and reform can be achieved in a number of ways. Through judicial decisions, for example, the courts can reform the law as the role of the courts is to interpret the laws made by Parliament ... "

"Law reform bodies frequently express a commitment to evidence-based law and policy recommendations. They also endorse the importance of the transparency and democratisation of their processes. They do not, however, connect these two goals of evidence-based policy and transparency ... "

"In their article, ‘The grassroots campaign for a Human Rights Act in Queensland: A case study of modern Australian law reform’, Emma Phillips and Aimee McVeigh review a long campaign to implement significant law reform, and evaluate the techniques used to achieve a successful outcome ... "

"The article discusses law reform in Australia, as well as the country's law reform agency called Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). Other topics include the ALRC role to carry out research and investigation on proposed law reform, the Commonwealth Attorney-General's duty to request law amendments to ALRC, as well as the powers of the ALRC under the Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996 ... "