Senators will be aware that the programme for Government of 2002 contained a commitment that the Government would move, in the context of a statutory press council and improved privacy laws, to implement reforms of libel laws designed to bring them into line with those prevailing in other states. We are now at a key point in a consultative and legislative process which I hope can take us all the way through to a reform of the law on defamation. The focal point of this process was the Report of the Legal Advisory Group on Defamation, which was published in June of this year.