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• Australian Postal Corporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  to: enable the disclosure of information and documents to prescribed persons; extend the operation of secondary disclosure provisions; expand the range of permissible circumstances in which a mail article may be opened and examined by Australia Post and border agencies; streamline certain administrative arrangements; and make minor and technical amendments; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy Regulator Act 2018

  and

  Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the new vehicle efficiency standard. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024, the bill establishes a vehicle efficiency standard to regulate the carbon dioxide emissions of certain road vehicles. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Community Television) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: enable the continuation of terrestrial community television to audiences in Melbourne and Adelaide beyond the current expiry date of 30 June 2024; and provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority with certain instrument-making powers; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to harmonise the code of practice arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Consumer Safeguards and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards Act 1999

  to amend the operation of the statutory infrastructure provider regime;

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to issue remedial notices to developers who do not install functional fibre-ready facilities in proximity to a development;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the disclosure by the ACMA of certain information;

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to enable the minister to determine service areas that relate to a primary universal service provider; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-siphoning) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to establish a framework to regulate the accessibility and prominence of free-to-air television services on certain internet connected television devices supplied in Australia; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to expand the anti-siphoning scheme to include online services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interactive Gambling Amendment (Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  to: prohibit the use of credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency as payment methods for interactive wagering services; expand the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s compliance and enforcement powers; and make consequential amendments and remove spent provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to: enable content providers to use accredited classifiers to self-classify film and computer game content; extend the powers of the Classification Board to quality assure industry self-classification decisions, including revocation of those decisions as necessary; enable the Classification Board to publish a list of approved words and phrases to use in consumer advice, along with guidance on their appropriate use; expand classification exemptions to include films in languages other than English distributed through public libraries; broaden the application of conditional cultural exemptions for classifiable content to include routine exhibitions at approved cultural institutions; and enable certain content that has already been classified under the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to be deemed as classified for distribution on other platforms, where no substantial changes have been made to the classifiable content; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Creative Australia Bill 2023, the bill: repeals the

  Australia Council Act 2013

  ; and provides for transitional provisions relating to the establishment of Creative Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Creative Australia Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill establishes Creative Australia by providing for the body corporate previously known as the Australia Council to continue in existence under the name Creative Australia with expanded functions, responsibilities and a new governance structure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum