Articles
​by Ian Cunliffe 

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Optus privacy policy vague, full of holes
​By Ian Cunliffe
Oct 6, 2022
​I was a midwife at Optus’ conception and birth. So it gives me no joy to watch Optus’ privacy predicaments. As a long time privacy law practitioner, I have a particular insight into Optus’ responses to the massive haemorrhage of the personal data of half the Australian adult population.

Optus must be prosecuted
​for Privacy Act breach​​
Read it on ​
​Pearls and Irritations
​By Ian Cunliffe
Oct 4, 2022
​​The Federal Government’s response was – appropriately – to allow Optus no easy alibis; but also to propose unspecified stronger legislation to protect the private information of Australians.

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The road ahead.
​​Read it 
​on ​Pearls and
​Irritations
​​By Ian Cunliffe
Oct 4, 2022
​The focus of political commentary since the election has largely been on the balance of power in the House of Representatives and on the make-up of the new Government.  Labor has a very narrow majority in its own right in the House.  So what is the road ahead for Labor?

Michael West
​19 August 2022
​​By Ian Cunliffe
​East Timor bugging scandal: Attorney General's push for secret trial diminishes us as a nation - Michael West ​

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​​Gaudian
​witness K
17 August 2022.
​​By Ian Cunliffe
​Witness K is in the dock but institutions vital to Australia’s democracy are on trial
Some people seem to be above the law. Those people do not include the whistle-blower and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery

Collaery AFR
​14 August 2022.
​​By Ian Cunliffe
Bernard Collaery trial is a highly unusual criminal prosecution 
​After nine months of hearings, seven judgments, and government
spending of $2 million, we still know too little about the prosecutions of Bernard Collaery and Witness K.​
Ian Cunliffe Aug 14, 2020 ​

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​Comms breakdown
​11 August 2022.
​​​By Ian Cunliffe
​Pearls and Irritations 
​How big government and big companies erect communications barriers

The life and times of 
​​Robodebt and its victims - ​
​​​By Ian Cunliffe
5 August 2022.
John Menadue :Pearls and Irritations 
The life and times of Robodebt and its victims ​

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Collaery secret trials ​
​The Sydney Morning Herald ​
and The Age 
​​​By Ian Cunliffe 
23 July 2020.
​OPINION
​Secret trials:
​our judges need to resist the government's pressure
​The Sydney Morning Herald

Dismissal Pearls and Irritations
​​​​By Ian Cunliffe
22 July
​John Menadue : 
Pearls and Irritations 1975 and all that ​