Bill
Enhancing Online Safety for Children (Consequential Amendments) 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
- passed — 2015-03-04
- 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 part of a package creating a Children's e-Safety Commissioner and a complaint system to quickly remove harmful cyber-bullying material from major social media sites.
The Commissioner, an independent office within the Australian Communications and Media Authority, would manage the complaint system and could order social media services to take down material targeting a child within 48 hours.
The bill sets up a two-tiered system where social media services can be declared Tier 1 (self-regulating) or Tier 2 (directly regulated, with civil penalties for non-compliance).
- Creates the Children's e-Safety Commissioner and specifies powers and functions.
- Establishes a complaints system for cyber-bullying material targeting an Australian child.
- Sets up a 2-tiered scheme for rapid removal of such material from large social media services.
- Allows the Commissioner to issue end-user notices requiring removal, cessation, or apology.
- Transfers administration of the online content scheme under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 from ACMA to the Commissioner.
Australian children, parents and guardians of children, and providers of large social media services are affected.
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