How will AI tools such as ChatGPT change the way legal services are delivered? Lisa Ziegert and John Gray discuss AI’s impact on the legal sector, potential benefits and downfalls, and whether a new legal framework to deal with AI is required.

In this episode, Meg Lee and Jacob Uljans discuss why greenwashing is a key regulatory priority for ASIC and the ACCC, and what action companies can take to minimise their risk.

Mark Dunphy, Nicole Tumiati, Chris Sacré and Kendall Messer discuss risks for the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector, where impacts of severe weather go beyond physical damage and reach into the supply chain.

Mark Dunphy, Meg Lee and Brendan Tobin discuss how the planning & environmental laws plan for, and respond to, climate change and extreme weather events.

In this episode, Julian Hammond talks to Dr Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor at Monash University and Acting Director of the Australian Centre of Justice Innovation, about anti-corruption and executive accountability, particularly given influences such as ministerial advisors and lobby groups, and the proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission.

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Dr Yee-Fui Ng is an Associate Professor at Monash University and Acting Director of the Australian Centre of Justice Innovation.

Dr Ng is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize. Dr Ng also co-authored Douglas and Jones's Administrative Law (Federation Press, 8th ed, 2018).

Dr Ng is a prolific commentator on contemporary political issues in both electronic and broadcast media, including in The Conversation, ABC radio, as well as ABC and SBS television.

Yee-Fui's work has been recognised by the High Court, federal government and Parliament. She was invited to deliver the Senate lecture at Parliament House in 2017, where she presented on the accountability of ministerial advisers.

She was also invited to give evidence to federal parliamentary inquiries into political donations and freedom of information. She has provided training to senior military officers on dealing with ministerial advisers at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies.

Yee-Fui has co-written key reports for the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption and the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political lobbying, and the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department on the federal government's use of automation and new technologies and its implications for the integrity law frameworks. She has also been an expert witness at both Victorian and NSW anti-corruption commission inquiries.

In this episode, Eden Winokur talks to Rhys Ryan, leading crisis communications expert and CEO at Porter Novelli Australia, about why it is vital to get communications messages right during a cyber incident, given the speed at which the crisis unfolds and the tension between the need to quickly inform customers while also being accurate in what is said.

In this episode, Eden Winokur talks to Shane Bell, cyber partner at McGrathNicol, about the cyber risk landscape, including whether data breaches will become a bigger risk than ransomware, whether companies should pay cyber ransom demands, and how important it is for companies to road-test their cyber incident response scenario before a crisis hits.

In this episode, Meg Lee chats with Clint Wilson, General Manager Sustainability at Centuria Capital Group, about Centuria’s ESG approach, developing an ESG framework across diverse sectors, and how the company has tackled ESG reporting.

Aon client director and cyber insurance practice leader Michael Parrant joins Head of Cyber Eden Winokur to discuss the recent Federal Court decision in Inchcape v Chubb, mitigating cyber risk and whether cyber insurance is getting a bad rap. Eden and Michael also discuss the latest in the Optus data breach (as at recording date of 28 September).

In this episode, listeners will hear from Dr Wolfgang Babeck and guest Linda Romanovska, an Australia-linked member of the EU platform on sustainable finance, who discuss the latest ESG issues and legislation in the European Union, including the EU Taxonomy Regulation and its linkage to the ISSB, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations, and how Australian companies should proceed with ESG strategy and reporting, particularly if they want to see where the journey is going or have a footprint in Europe.

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