In the wake of Adrian Bayley's murder of Jill Meagher while on parole, and Ian Callinan's subsequent review of Victoria's parole system, SBS Insight examines how authorities decide to release prisoners on parole and whether the system is working.

If you missed last night's program on parole you can watch it online here.

The Migrant Smuggling Case Database, launched by the UQ Migrant Smuggling Working Group in August 2013, provides immediate, public access to officially documented instances of this crime. The database contains details of the arrival of smuggled migrants in selected destination countries, embarkation and arrival points, passengers, crew, and organisers, charges laid, criminal proceedings and legal issues, verdicts and other information relating to reported cases of migrant smuggling.

Community Law Australia is celebrating a "Day in the Life of a CLC". Go to Community Law Australia's Facebook page or use Twitter (#unlockthelaw) to learn more about the amazing work that happens in community legal centres around Australia.

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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced that the Australian Law Reform Commission will undertake a new inquiry into the protection of digital privacy. The inquiry will investigate existing privacy statutes and make recommendations on how the government can reduce the risk of serious invasions of privacy.

The Australian Law Reform Commission will report back to the Attorney-General before June 2014.

The Victorian Parliamentary Law Reform Committee has released its final report for the Inquiry into sexting.

The report contains 14 recommendations that the Committee believes will protect people from the harms caused by non-consensual sexting. The report also recognises that some sexting between young people should not be treated as child pornography, and recommends that new defences to child pornography offences be introduced to Victorian legislation.

Commander Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity is subject to terrestrial intellectual property regimes, the Economist explains....

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-12

From the State Library of Queensland Blog

On 1 March 1945 Queensland's first female juror was empanelled at Brisbane's Supreme Court. Nellie Bishop, a housewife from Kelvin Grove who had never before been inside a courtroom, was thrust into the media spotlight. "I was scared stiff" she told a reporter from The Courier Mail