Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Act 2025 (72 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Disclosure of information about ownership of listed entities

Part 3   Registers

Corporations Act 2001

52   Section 9

Insert:

academic means a person who is working in a professional capacity as a member of the academic staff or teaching staff of a tertiary education institution.

journalist means a person who is working in a professional capacity as a journalist for any of the following:

(a) a newspaper or magazine;

(b) a radio or television broadcasting service;

(c) an electronic service (including a service provided through the internet) that:

(i) is operated on a commercial basis, or operated by a body that provides a national broadcasting service (within the meaning of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992); and

(ii) is similar to a newspaper, magazine or radio or television broadcast.