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• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Regulation of Access to Communications (the Blunn Report), the bill amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  in relation to: access to telecommunications data for national security and law enforcement purposes; and makes consequential amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to exclude access to stored communications from the current prohibition against interception of communications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to exclude access to stored communications from the current prohibition against interception of communications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004

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  Date

  19 Feb 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to: extend the availability of telecommunications interception warrants to additional serious offences; extend the protections of the Act in relation to text-based communications; facilitate the recording of calls to publicly-listed Australian Security Intelligence Organisation numbers; and clarify the application of the Act to delayed access message services. Also contains a transitional provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill 2002

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  Date

  12 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  in relation to: application of the Act to telecommunications services such as e-mail, SMS messaging and voicemail; interception in relation to terrorism, serious arson and child pornography offences; use of lawfully intercepted information in connection with dismissal of an officer; the Anti-Corruption Commission of Western Australia, and the Western Australian Royal Commission into Police Corruption; operation of certain warrants authorising entry onto premises; merger of the Queensland Crime Commission and Criminal Justice Commission into the Crime and Misconduct Commission; and technical corrections; and

  Customs Act 1901

  to enable Federal Magistrates to be nominated to be judges for the purposes of issuing listening device warrants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Legislation Amendment Bill 2000

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  Date

  16 Feb 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 1999

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  Date

  31 Aug 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to support the transition to the national broadband network, the bill imposes a levy on telecommunications carriers or carriage service providers if the carriers or providers have a levy amount for an eligible levy period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to support the transition to the national broadband network, the bill: establishes the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency (TUSMA) as a statutory agency to implement and administer the service agreements or grants that deliver universal service and other public policy telecommunications outcomes; sets out the agency’s corporate governance structure and reporting and accountability requirements; provides for the minister, by legislative instrument, to make standards, rules or benchmarks for TUSMA contracts and grants; and provides for the Universal Service Obligation and National Relay Service industry levy regimes to be consolidated into a single regime to provide TUSMA funding. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to require developers to install fibre-ready infrastructure in new developments and ensure that any fixed line facilities installed in a development must be fibre-ready. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum