Bill
Telecommunications Amendment (Giving the Community Rights on Phone Towers) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2018-12-04. (s) WILKIE, Andrew, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Andrew Wilkie
- Portfolio
- (s) WILKIE, Andrew, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-06-25
- second reading — 2018-06-25
- other — 2018-12-04
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 2018-06-25.
The bill would give residents more say about where mobile phone towers and other telecom equipment can be built.
Land owners and occupiers would have to be told about a proposed tower and get 30 days to reply, and new towers could not be classed as low impact.
The telecom regulator could not consider commercial benefits when deciding a facility's importance, and communities could challenge installation permits in a tribunal.
- Requires notification of land owners and occupiers about proposed towers.
- Gives 30 days for responses to proposed developments.
- Prevents new towers from being declared low impact.
- Stops the regulator from weighing commercial interests when assessing a facility's network importance.
- Forces the regulator to check all alternative sites are unworkable near sensitive community sites.
- Allows local communities to appeal installation permits to a tribunal.
Land owners, occupiers, local communities and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
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