This special series of posts, examining whether Australian administrative law is still fit for purpose, will be published throughout 2021 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kerr Report.

The posts published to date are:

• Janina Boughey, 50 Years after the Kerr Report: Is Australian administrative law still fit for purpose? (19 March 2021)

• Lynsey Blayden, Seeing the New Administrative Law in a ‘green light’ (16 April 2021)

• Narelle Bedford, The Kerr Report's vision for the Administrative Review Council and the (sad) modern reality (21 May 2021)

• Thomas Liu, The Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 and what it says about judicial review and administrative law (18 June 2021)

• Chantal Bostock, Not "just another piece of material" the value of Tribunal review (16 July 2021)

• Yee-Fui Ng, The Rise of Automated Decision-Making in the Administrative State: Are Kerr’s Institutions still ‘Fit for Purpose'? (20 August 2021) 

• Anita Stuhmcke, The Commonwealth Ombudsman: still fit for purpose? (17 September 2021)

• Brenda Tronson, The practical impacts of the ADJR Act on judicial review applications (22 October 2021)

• Geoffrey Watson SC, Buried at Sea: The Loss of our Freedom to Access Governmental Information (10 November, 2021)

• Paul Daly, The Kerr Report, 50 Years On: An Overseas Overview (26 November 2021)

• Gabrielle Appleby, Lynsey Blayden, Chantal Bostock & Janina Boughey, A principled approach to key reforms of Australia’s administrative review system (17 December 2021)