Yesterday's Law Report on Radio National covered the mooted statutory right of privacy.  It is found here . The transcript of the program, with my annotations, provides: Damien Carrick : Hello, welcome to the Law Report , Damien Carrick with you. Currently both Australia and the UK are engaged in a fundamental re-examination of how we regulate the media. The UK is awaiting the release of the much-anticipated findings of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Here in Australia we're awaiting on Canberra's response to two recent inquiries or reviews. We've got the Finkelstein Inquiry, it's calling for statutory regulation of all sectors of the media, including, for the first time, newspapers. There's also the Convergence Review; it recommended an industry-led body to overseas journalistic standards of news and commentary across all media platforms. But what I want to concentrate on today is another big potential change to the Australian media landscape. In September 2011, the federal government released a discussion paper titled 'A Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasion of Privacy'. It received a large number of submissions, and we're currently waiting on the announcement from Canberra over whether or not it will press ahead, and for the first time in Australia create a statutory right to privacy. Well, today a conversation with two leading media law experts about privacy. Peter Bartlett is a partner with Minter Ellison. He's one of Australia's leading media lawyers. He provides round-the-clock advice to The