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- Corporations Law/ Business Associations

- Business Law

- Taxation Law

- Torts Law

- Internet Law

Books

• Mirko Bagaric, Peter Faris QC and Rachel Anne Carter, The Law of Compensation for Harms: Torts (Pan Macmillan Publishers, Australia, 2011).

Conference Papers

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Wild Fires- The Legal Regulatory System of Insurance and Emergency Services Funding' paper presented at the University of Wollongong, Keeping the Fire Conference, July 2010.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Fire Insurance - Problems with Claims Resulting from Catastrophic Events', Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Taxing the Taxed- Duplication of Taxation in Property Insurance and Social Implications' paper presented at the University of Melbourne, Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, January 2011.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Analysis of the Australian Insurance Law and Regulatory Systems Covering Property Damage Caused by Fire' paper presented at the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre Research Advisory Forum, Brisbane, May 2011 (Invited speaker).

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Mitigating Future Disasters in Australia- The Role of the Government, The Insurers and the People' paper presented at 9th Conference on Catastrope Insurance in Asia, Beijing, China, 8 -9 June 2011.

•  Rachel Anne Carter, 'Risk and the Decision to Insure in Australia: The Black Saturday Fires', paper presented at Disasters and Sociolegal Studies Workshop, Onati, Spain, 21 - 22 July 2011.

Journal Articles

• Professor Danuta Mendelson and Rachel Anne Carter, 'Catastrophic Damages- Liability and Insurance' (Forthcoming, 2012).

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Flood Risk, Insurance ad Emergency Management in Australia: Queensland 2011' (2012) 27(2) Australian Journal of Emergency Management 20 - 25.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Taxing the Taxed - Duplication of Taxation in Property Insurance and Its Societal Implications' (2011) 6(1) Australian Journal of Tax Teachers Association 38 - 58.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Economic Management of Disaster Resilience and Recovery- Remedying the Insurance Problem' (2011) 28 International Association for Emergency Managers Bulletin 6 - 7.

• Rachel Anne Carter, 'Wild Fires- The Legal Regulatory System of Insurance and Emergency Services Funding' (2011) 14 Southern Cross University Law Review 75 - 93.

• Rachel Anne Carter and David Makin, 'Piggyback Hunting- Browsing the Internet in Australia via Unsecured Wireless Networks: Virtual Theft of Acceptable Behaviour in an Online World' (2009) 16 James Cook University Law Review 20 - 41.

Other

• 2CC Talking Canberra, 'Problems Facing the Insurance Industry after the Flooding', Breakfast, 23 January 2011 (Rachel Carter).

• ABC Radio National, 'Lessons of the Floods: How Do We Minimise the Damage?', Australia Talks, 24 January 2011 (Rachel Carter.

• Anthony Bergin, Edward Mortimer and Rachel Carter, 'Deciding Just Who Picks Up the Tab After a Catastrophe', The Australian (Australia) 12 February 2011.

• Channel 7, 'Flood Insurance, Today Tonight on Channel 7, 13 January 2011 (Rachel Carter).

• Evidence to the Senate Economics References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, 13 May 2011 (Rachel Carter).

• Newstalk ZB (New Zealand), 'Cost of Natural Disasters to the Australian Economy', News, 13 January 2011 (Rachel Carter).

• Kirstin Murray, 'Cost of the Clean Up',  7: 30 Report on ABC Television , 13 January 2011 (Rachel Carter).

• Rachel Carter, 'Disasters, Economics and Insurance: Paying for It All' presented at Australian National University, School of Law, Canberra, 5 August 2011 (Invited presentation).

• Rachel Carter, Submission No 1 to National Disaster Insurance Review, Treasury, Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into Insurance and the Temporary Flood and Cyclone Levy, 21 July 2011.

• Rachel Carter, Submission No 1 to Senate Economics References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Inquirty into the State Governments Insurance and the Flood Levy, 13 April 2011.

• Rachel Carter, Submission No 1 to Treasury on Unfair Terms in Insurance Contracts, Inquiry into Unfair Terms in Insurance Contracts, February 2012.

• Rachel Carter, 'Don't Blame the Insurers- Blame the System', The Punch (www.thepunch.com.au), 20 January 2011.

• Rachel Carter, 'Flood Insurance Must be Made Accessible to All', The Australian (Australia) 13 January 2011, 14.

• John Morss and Rachel Anne Carter 'MLMD785 International Law Study Guide and readings', Deakin University 2010. 

Policy Papers

• Edward Mortimer, Anthony Bergin and Rachel Anne Carter, 'Sharing the Risk: Distributing the Cost of Natural Disasters in Australia' (Australasian Strategic Policy Institute, 2011).

Work Completed as a Research Assistant 

• Professor Danuta Mendelson and Professor Anne Rees , ‘Confidentiality, Privacy and Access to Health Records’, in Medical Law in Australia B White, F McDonald & L Willmott (Eds), 2010 Thomson Reuters Chapter 8, 301-341.

Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, 'Mainstreaming Fire and Emergency Management Accross Legal and Policy Sectors: Joint Research and Policy Learning' (Project Leader- Professor Stephen Dovers, 2010 - 2013).

Victorian Centre for Climate Change and Research Adaptation and Victorian Government, 'Scoping Legal, Regulatory and Institutional Frameworks for Adaptation ad Natural Disaster Management' (April 2012 - April 2014).