You might be worried that any information that you give to the Royal Commission, including in a written, online or audio-visual submission, is in breach of a non-disclosure or confidentiality clause in an agreement you have signed, or is defamatory. If so, you can ask the Royal Commission to issue you with what is called a ‘notice to produce’ your submission.
If the Royal Commission has issued you with a notice to produce (or if you give evidence before the Royal Commission in a public hearing), it is a criminal offence for any person to injure you, cause you disadvantage, or for your employer to take action against you because you have given information to the Royal Commission.
It is therefore against the law for a person to sue you for breach of a confidentiality clause because you gave your information to the Royal Commission in response to a notice. The law also says that any information you provide to the Royal Commission in response to a notice issued by the Royal Commission cannot be used as evidence against you in any civil or criminal proceedings in Australia.