Bill
Broadcasting Services Amendment (Healthy Kids Advertising) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28.
- Sponsor
- Sophie Scamps
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-18
- second reading — 2024-11-18
- other — 2025-03-28
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 2024-11-18.
This bill would stop unhealthy food marketing on certain TV and radio services and on online platforms, including narrowcasting and subscription services.
It would create a general ban on such marketing online, applying to both content providers and those who pay for the content, with a definition of unhealthy food based on a 2018 COAG Health Council guide and allowing the minister to add more foods.
Courts could impose penalties of up to $550,000 or 5% of a large corporation's turnover from unhealthy food products, and the operation would be reviewed after four years.
- Prohibits airing unhealthy food marketing on TV and radio between 6am and 9:30pm local time.
- Bans unhealthy food marketing online at all hours.
- Defines unhealthy food using the 2018 COAG Health Council guide and lets the minister add more foods.
- Sets penalties of up to $550,000 or 5% of turnover for large corporations.
- Requires a review after four years.
Children and the general public, along with broadcasters, online content providers, and advertisers who pay for such marketing.
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