Division Description Changes — Bills — Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017; in Committee — 14th Sep 2017

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senate vote 2017-09-14#8

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Title

  • Bills — Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017; in Committee
  • Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Agree with bills

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Chris Ketter</p>
  • <p>The question is that the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, as amended, be agreed to and the Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 be agreed to without request.</p>
  • <p>Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, as amended, agreed to; and Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 agreed to without requests.</p>
  • The majority agreed to both bills, as amended by the Senate, which means they can now decide on [whether to pass the bills](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html) in the Senate.
  • ### What do the bills do?
  • The two bills are the:
  • * [Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5907); and the
  • * [Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r5908).
  • Most significantly, the bills were introduced to get rid of certain media ownership, control and diversity laws, like the ‘75% audience reach rule’, which stops commercial television broadcasting licensees from controlling licences if the combined licence area has a population over 75% of Australia' population. It would also get rid of the ‘2 out of 3 cross-media control rule’, which stops a company from having control over more than two out of three regulated media platforms in any one commercial radio licence area.
  • Read more in the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1718a/18bd08).
  • <p>Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017 reported with amendments; Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017 reported without requests; report adopted.</p>