Telecommunications Regulatory Reform

The Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 introduces a package of legislative reforms aimed at enhancing competitive outcomes in the Australian telecommunications industry and strengthening consumer safeguards.

The package has three primary parts: addressing Telstra’s vertical and horizontal integration; streamlining the access and anti-competitive conduct regimes; and strengthening consumer safeguard measures such as the Universal Service Obligation (USO), the Customer Service Guarantee (CSG) and priority assistance.

Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 (PDF, 306 Kb)
• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 (RTF, 1Mb)

Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Explanatory Memorandum (PDF, 927Kb) 
• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Explanatory Memorandum (RTF, 912Kb)
• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Explanatory Memorandum - Notes on Clauses (RTF, 709Kb)
• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Figure 1 Number of payphones in Australia (RTF, 114Kb)
• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Figure 2 Telstra's quarterly fault repair performance (RTF, 163Kb)
• Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill - Herfindahl-Hirschman Index for Telstra (RTF, 2Mb)

Second reading speech

• Telecommunications Regulatory Reforms (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009—second reading speech delivered by the Hon. Anthony Albanese MP (PDF)
• Telecommunications Regulatory Reforms (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009—second reading speech delivered by the Hon. Anthony Albanese MP (RTF)

Exposure draft of amendments

• Exposure draft of amendments to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 (PDF, 31 KB)
• Exposure draft of amendments to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment(Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 (RTF, 183 KB)
• Discussion of amendments (PDF, 27 KB)
• Discussion of amendments (RTF, 58 KB)