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TOTAL RESULTS: 55
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15 Feb 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to ensure that persons who re-transmit content provided by National Indigenous TV Limited (NITV Ltd) for transmission by Imparja Television are exempt from the regulatory requirements of the Act; and Copyright Act 1968
to amend the statutory licence copyright collection scheme to apply it to re-transmissions of NITV Ltd program material.
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- Date
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03 Dec 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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LEES, Meg
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to require the Australian Broadcasting Authority to impose licence conditions on commercial television licensees in metropolitan areas, obliging them to provide locally-produced news, current affairs and other programming.
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12 Oct 2006
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
- Summary
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Introduced with the Datacasting Transmitter Licence Fees Bill 2006, the bill amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to ensure compliance by channel A datacasting transmitter licence holders with licence fee payment and record keeping obligations. Also makes a consequential amendment to the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
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10 May 2000
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio
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- Date
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24 May 2012
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area.
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- Date
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30 May 2012
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
in relation to the provision of captioning services by commercial, national and subscription television broadcasters by: introducing and increasing captioning targets; requiring the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop a captioning standard to determine the quality of captioning services; requiring broadcasters to transmit emergency warnings in the form of text and speech, and captioned where possible; introducing compliance reporting and record keeping requirements; providing for a statutory review by the ACMA; and making compliance with the captioning requirements a licensing condition.
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- Date
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01 Mar 2001
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio
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- Date
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21 Apr 1999
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio
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- Date
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02 Nov 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: extend from 1 January 2012 to 1 January 2013 the review relating to the allocation of one or more additional commercial television broadcast licences (“the sixth channel review”); and expand the scope of this and any subsequent review.
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- Date
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01 Mar 2006
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: increase flexibility in the operation of the 10 per cent requirement for new spending on drama on subscription television; and allow the Australian Communications and Media Authority to approve the transfer of a community broadcasting licence to another person who represents the same community interest.
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