From the CEO’s Desk

Here we are in the home stretch into the silly season. Of course, you’re all joining us for our End of Year events, aren’t you!?!?

I’m left wondering which government department will issue a request for comment in the week before shutdown. I suspect the Privacy Legislation amendments will be waved through, meaning we can all look forward to seeing penalties up to 30% of annual turnover and the predictable quirks of legislation passed without fully considering all the feedback.

The team have been working hard to upgrade a few links and switches here and there, and I still have one or 2 external presentations to give before we wrap up for the year. I am very proud of all the work the IAA staff have done this year – that portal for starters is a breath of fresh air! We do appreciate it when members uncover things we hadn’t expected, so please do let us know if something doesn’t quite work the way you’d like.

Our Public Policy Advisory Panel met last month, and my goodness the topics were controversial: NBN SAU, Privacy changes, the consumer-data right, low-income measures, critical-infrastructure (risk) measures… Each of these triggered a passionate discussion, which means we are looking carefully at all of these topics. We’re definitely trying to track the new risk-management framework closely so that we can appraise our members of the best approach to new obligations when they inevitably appear!

Don’t forget the end-of-year embargo, and of course don’t forget to take some time off over the end of the year! After coming to our events, of course!

All the best

Narelle