Privacy Awareness Week launch in Queensland

Help us celebrate Privacy Awareness Week in Queensland!

Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) runs from 16-22 June 2025 and it’s an annual celebration shining a light on the importance of protecting and respecting personal information – whether you’re in the public sector and deal with people’s information at work, or if you’re a member of the community wondering how best to keep your information safe. This year’s PAW theme is ‘Privacy: it's everyone's business.’

Keynote presentation and panel discussion (NOTE: This event will be livestreamed. You do not need to register for the livestream. It will be available via oic.qld.gov.au/paw2025)

Join us at the PAW launch in Queensland where Ms Georgina Poole will deliver the keynote presentation titled, 'Learning from Data Incidents: What Safety Can Teach Us About Privacy.'

Human error is widely acknowledged as a leading contributor to data breaches — yet our response often focuses on individual accountability rather than understanding and improving the systems people work within.

This keynote explores how principles from Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) and Safety Differently can help government agencies better understand and respond to privacy breaches. Rather than focusing on individual blame, the session highlights how system design, context, and everyday pressures shape human behaviour.

By learning from how work is actually done — not just how it's imagined — agencies can build more resilient, user-friendly privacy processes that support people to do the right thing, even under pressure.

Georgina offers practical strategies to shift from a compliance mindset to a learning culture that treats privacy as a shared responsibility.

This will be followed by an expert panel discussion moderated by emcee and journalist, Ms Kim Skubris. The panel includes:

• Leanne Harvey, Vice-President (Administration) and University Registrar, Queensland University of Technology
• Dr Jodie Siganto, Director, Privacy 108
• A representative from IDCare
• Susan Shanley, Acting Privacy Commissioner, Queensland.

NOTE: This event will be livestreamed. You do not need to register for the livestream. It will be available via oic.qld.gov.au/paw2025