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An update on Australia's foreign investment approval (FIRB) regime
Covered in this webinar: FIRB experts will share their insights on the current Australian Government's approach to assessing foreign investment proposals, and how they could impact you and your transactions; Recent changes to the FIRB regime; and Upcoming developments such as the commencement of the Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets. ...
The Cyber Brief: A minute to midnight: ASIC Commissioner Simone Constant on cyber risk and enforcement in the age of frontier AI
Valeska and co-host Kate Austin are joined by ASIC Commissioner Simone Constant, author of ASIC's open letter calling for urgent cyber uplift as frontier AI accelerates cyber threats. Simone shares wh ...
Automated decision-making transparency—what APP entities need to know about the APP 1 amendments
From 10 December, organisations will be required, under new Australian Privacy Principles (the APPs) 1.7–1.9, to include information about automated decision-making (ADM) in their privacy p ...
AFR AI Summit 2026
As a major sponsor of the AFR AI Summit 2026, Allens supported a timely discussion on AI moving from experimentation to delivering real, measurable business value. The summit explored how organis ...
Extensive reforms to the FIRB regime
On 19 May 2026, the Australian Treasurer announced extensive reforms to the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) framework and released a reforms overview paper. The stated purpose is to further str ...
Valeska Bloch appointed to Australian Government's Cyber Incident Review Board
The Board, which forms a key component of the Australian Government's 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, will be responsible for conducting no-fault, post-incident reviews of significant ...
The Cyber Brief: cyber innovation and investment with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (part two)
In part two of our conversation, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joins Valeska and Dominic to discuss the state of Australia's cyber startup landscape, the role of private capital and the polic ...
Allens advises La Caisse on landmark $1.7bn commitment in NEXTDC hybrid securities
The hybrid securities will provide flexible, long-term capital to support NEXTDC’s expanding pipeline of data centre developments across Australia, responding to surging demand for digital ...
Board and management briefing: preparing for Mythos-class threats
Anthropic recently announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model that it says can autonomously find and exploit previously unknown security vulnerabilities 'in every major operating system and web brow ...
Three papers, one message—why Australia's critical infrastructure regime is about to change
In this Insight, we explain the implications of three recent major developments regarding the scope and operation of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (the SoCI Act): the Final R ...