Bill
National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2025-03-27. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-10
- second reading — 2024-11-04
- second reading — 2024-11-05
- second reading — 2024-11-07
- second reading — 2024-11-18
- second reading — 2024-11-19
- second reading — 2024-11-20
- committee — 2024-11-20
- third reading — 2024-11-20
- introduced — 2024-11-25
- second reading — 2024-11-25
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- third reading — 2025-03-26
- passed — 2025-03-26
- royal assent — 2025-03-27
Divisions
- National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2024-11-20, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 85, noes 56
- National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Universal service obligation — 2024-11-20, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 16, noes 48
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-10-09.
This bill would write into law the government's existing policy that the company operating the National Broadband Network must stay in public hands.
It would remove the legislative conditions that currently allow the company to be privately owned and controlled, and add a new statement of parliamentary intent confirming the company should remain wholly owned by the Commonwealth.
The bill would also make two minor consequential amendments to the Telecommunications Act 1997, but does not change how the network operates, the company's governance, or the competition regulator's oversight.
- Removes the legislative conditions that enable private ownership and control of NBN Co.
- Inserts a new section 43A as a statement of parliamentary intent that NBN Co should remain wholly owned by the Commonwealth.
- Amends the simplified outline in section 43 of the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011.
- Makes two minor consequential amendments to the Telecommunications Act 1997.
NBN Co Limited, the company that operates the National Broadband Network, and the Commonwealth government.
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