One of the last vestiges of centuries of paper and ink has finally fallen, after federal attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote into law the permanent ability to use digital execution, electronic ...

New laws allowing digital statutory declarations will make it easy to apply online for a raft of federal services such as passport renewals, Australian visas, health services, election enrolment, ...

Australians will no longer have to adhere to an annoying legal requirement in a move that’s promised to simplify daily life and save people money. The federal government has introduced legislation to ...

Australians will save $156 million and hundreds of thousands of work hours after the government passed legislation to permanently recognise digital commonwealth statutory declarations.

The federal government has introduced legislation to permanently allow declarations to be made with electronic signatures and video-link witnessing. The measures were temporary during Covid-19. The ...