Australia's privacy overhaul is not one event — it is a staged program, and teams treating it as a single future deadline are already behind on the parts that are law today. The Privacy Act Review produced 116 reform proposals; the first tranche was legislated in December 2024 and commences in pieces, while the second tranche — the one aimed squarely at direct marketing — is still being drafted. I
What this covers
- Where the reform actually stands in August 2026
- Already in force: the statutory tort is the sleeper risk for outbound
- The hard deadline: ADM transparency by 10 December 2026
- Tranche 2: the direct-marketing reforms outbound teams should watch
- A preparation plan that survives the uncertainty
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *AI Agents and the Australian Privacy Act Review: What Outbound Teams Should Prepare For*.
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