Helen Daniels is the Assistant Secretary, Copyright and Classification Policy Branch, of the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department.  Apart from a three year period working in privacy and freedom of information law, she has worked in copyright law policy since 1985.

Ms Daniels has been involved with a number of major legislative reforms to the Australian Copyright Act 1968, including the digital agenda reforms, parallel importation, moral rights, Australia’s obligations under the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement and wide-ranging reforms passed by the Australian Parliament in December 2006.

Ms Daniels has represented the Australian Government at various international meetings and is a former member of the Copyright Law Review Committee and the Public Lending Right Committee.

In 2006 she participated in the US International Visitor and Leadership Program. In 2007 Ms Daniels was awarded a Public Service Medal in recognition of her work in copyright reform.