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TOTAL RESULTS: 55
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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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10 May 2000
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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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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12 Oct 2006
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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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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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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- Date
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03 Dec 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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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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- Date
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15 Feb 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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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 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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06 Dec 2000
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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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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23 Oct 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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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
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to provide for new licensing arrangements for community television services; Broadcasting Services Act 1992
in relation to licensing arrangements for community broadcasting; and Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992
to repeal the remaining provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1942
dealing with political advertisements which the High Court held invalid. Also contains saving, application and transitional provisions.
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- Date
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05 Apr 2001
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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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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23 Jun 2005
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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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
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to provide a framework for the conversion of commercial television broadcasting services in regional and remote areas of Western Australia from analogue to digital; and to allow commercial television broadcasting licensees in remote licence areas to multi-channel their digital services, where they elect jointly, or one elects individually, to provide a third digital-only commercial service; and exempt such licensees from any mandatory high definition television quotas that might be applied in remote licence areas.
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- Date
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25 Sep 2002
- 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 delay the commencement date for high definition television programming obligations on commercial television broadcasting licensees and national broadcasters in mainland State capitals until 1 July 2003.
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