27th Mar 2018, 1:51 PM – Senate Communications Legislation Amendment (Online Content Services and Other Measures) Bill 2017 - in Committee - Parliamentary oversight

The majority voted against amendments introduced by South Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens), which means it failed.

Senator Hanson-Young explained that:

All this amendment does is reinstate parliamentary oversight. It doesn't say what quota is right or wrong. It's got nothing to do with that. It simply says that the parliament has a right to act as a check and a balance on the decisions and directions being made by the minister.

Amendment text

(1) Clause 3, page 2 (after line 11), at the end of the clause, add:

Note: The provisions of the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 amended or inserted by this Act, and any other provisions of those regulations, may be amended or repealed by regulations made under section 62 of the Legislation Act 2003 (see subsection 13(5) of that Act).

(2) Schedule 1, page 5 (after line 7), after item 12, insert:

12A Subsection 122(7) (note)

Repeal the note.

(3) Page 34 (after line 26), at the end of the bill, add:

Schedule 2—Program standards

Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015

1 Section 10 (table item 8)

Repeal the item, substitute:

8 An amendment made under section 128 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 to a standard under Part 9 of that Act