Andrew Bartlett (Queensland, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I also had a question about amendment (18), which requires a review to be carried out by the end of March 2008 of the operation of sections 47J and 110AA of the Copyright Act and for it to be tabled in parliament. I note that recommendation 15 from the majority report recommends that the government undertakes a public review of the impact of the changes made to the Copyright Act by this bill, a review of all of the changes rather than just those two sections. Is there some broader intent? What is the government’s response to that recommendation? Are you making any commitment to undertake a review of the totality of the impact of all of these changes or just to those two sections? Secondly, whilst I recognise that it is not appropriate to detail in legislation the full nature of the type of review that is foreshadowed or will be required by the amendment, is the minister able to give a commitment that the review will be a public one that will enable public input rather than an internal departmental one?