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Two kinds of page. Reference pages answer the questions owners ask most and change when the rule changes. Explainers take one loud thing in AI and say what it means for a business your size.
Does the Privacy Act apply to my business?
The $3 million rule, the health-provider rule, and why "we are too small" is a weaker answer than it used to be.
Every Australian AI framework on one page
Guidance for AI Adoption, the Voluntary AI Safety Standard, the NSW framework, OAIC guidance, the AI Ethics Principles, ISO 42001. What each is, who wrote it, and who it is actually for.
The 10 December 2026 rule, by business type
If a system makes or shapes a decision about a person, your privacy policy has to say so. What that means for a clinic, an agency, a firm and a shop.
Does my business need an AI policy?
Why the free templates are a starting point and not an answer, and the four decisions that have to be made before any template is useful.
Staff are using free AI tools. What actually happens to your client data.
Where the information goes, what the provider keeps, and the one setting to switch off tonight.
Is it a data breach? The first twenty four hours.
Who you tell, what gets deleted, who decides whether a client is told, and when the regulator has to hear about it.
Which AI tools can hold client data?
Four tiers of tool, four buckets of information, and a table that answers "can I put this in ChatGPT" once and for all.
What the NSW Government asks before it uses AI, and how to borrow it
The NSW AI Operational Policy, the AI Assessment Framework, what agencies must now do, and the twelve-question version for a business your size.
Only when it changes something for you.
"Slow down and build capability first." What this means for a small to medium business.
What is being said, what it actually means, and the two things to do with it this month.
There is also AI This Week: Ashley's weekly read of what happened in AI and whether it matters to a business your size. When one of those weeks changes a rule that applies to you, it becomes an explainer here.