Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

To answer the question that has been raised by the member for North Sydney, I can say that this bill introduces what will be a new tort to Australian law for serious invasions of privacy. As with the development of other parts of tort law, we will see, as proceedings are brought, what the courts choose to describe as the full extent of the tort, the civil wrong that's been created by this legislation and the extent of the defences. I'm not going to predict in advance exactly what the parameters of this tort are going to be. That's going to be a matter for case law to work through.

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