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News
Property Law Reform Commissioner appointed
The Victorian State Government has appointed Monash University Professor Pam O’Conner to lead the government’s review of property law (see below). More ...
Victoria to Review Property Laws
The Brumby Government has announced a review of Victorian property laws, which will be undertaken by the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
The first stage of the review will focus on updating the Property Law Act 1958 and the law of easements and covenants.
The second stage will look at the Transfer of Land Act 1958.
The Property Law Reform Alliance welcomes this announcement and looks forward to promoting its draft Uniform Torrens Title Act as a model for reform. More ...
Why property law should be the next reform target
Traditional ‘states rights’ arguments against property law reform have created untenable artificial barriers to greater growth and prosperity.
In an age of globalisation and instant communications, the inevitable delays, red tape, and cost to trade and commerce caused by discrepancies in property law can no longer be justified. More ...
Complex Real Property Rights research centre a first in the Southern Hemisphere
Carbon rights, customary land, urban planning, common property, the Republic, and even the sex industry will be under scrutiny by the University of Technology, Sydney’s latest research venture.
The Asia-Pacific Centre for Complex Real Property Rights (APCCRPR), unique in the Southern Hemisphere for the way it embraces the challenge and diversity of contemporary property rights, was opened by His Honour Justice Peter McClellan, Chief Judge at Common Law in the NSW Supreme Court, on 29 April 2009. More ...
The first step towards fixing the investment problem: Harmonising real property laws in Australia
Although the Torrens Title system is widely recognised as one of the world’s best systems of land titling, the fact that we have eight markedly different versions of that system slows down investment and makes Australia less competitive on an international scale. More ...
A National Electronic Conveyancing System
- Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, 2 July, 2008
COAG has agreed to the establishment of a national platform to settle all property transactions electronically.
A single national electronic conveyancing system is a significant step towards creating a seamless national economy in Australia.
Australia’s first national electronic conveyancing system - to be operational by March 2010 - will provide an efficient online national platform...
Click here to read the media release.
National Electonic Conveyancing System - An historic opportunity and a new era of co-operation
- Standing Committee of Attorneys-General 
28 March, 2008
The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) held its first meeting since the election of the Rudd Labor Government.
SCAG is willing to assist with the national electronic conveyancing system project including the development of any necessary model legislation for the settlement system and any national corporate entity that may be necessary for the project.
To see the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General Communique, click here.
Law officers hoping to make peace
- Australian Financial Review
18 January, 2008
Australia's attorneys-general are preparing to five their tri-annual meetings an overhaul to reduce political infighting, boost
outcomes, and unleash a wave
of harmonising legal reforms.
To see the article, click here.
