Bill
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014
passed, as at 2015-03-24. Communications portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2015-02-12
- second reading — 2015-02-23
- second reading — 2015-02-23
- third reading — 2015-02-23
- introduced — 2015-03-02
- second reading — 2015-03-02
- second reading — 2015-03-03
- second reading — 2015-03-04
- second reading — 2015-03-04
- committee — 2015-03-04
- third reading — 2015-03-04
- other — 2015-03-05
- passed — 2015-03-05
- royal assent — 2015-03-24
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-12-03.
This bill is one of a pair that fulfils government election promises to make the internet safer for children.
The package creates a new Children's e-Safety Commissioner and a system for swiftly removing cyber-bullying aimed at Australian children from major social media platforms.
The Commissioner, who would sit inside the Australian Communications and Media Authority, could order a person who posts such material to take it down, stop posting, or apologise, with a court injunction available for non-compliance.
- Establishes the Children's e-Safety Commissioner with national leadership duties and a complaints-handling role.
- Introduces a two-tiered scheme for rapid removal of cyber-bullying from large social media services, with tier 1 services facing no direct enforcement but possible loss of status, and tier 2 services subject to direct regulation and civil penalties.
- Creates a special account to finance the Commissioner's work.
- Allows the Commissioner to share information with teachers, principals, or parents to help resolve complaints.
Australian children, their parents and guardians, providers of large social media services, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
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