The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Australia could also introduce that system whereby internet service providers are forced to monitor P2P file sharing on their networks, and to ultimately cut off customers who persistently illegally share music.
As previously reported, the music industry is keen for the ISPs to take on a more proactive role in policing online copyright infringement, and some are of the opinion that if the ISPs won't take on that role voluntary, copyright laws should be altered to force them to.
The French government has said it is considering such measures, and last week The Times reported the UK government was also considering the proposals. Those proposals include a three-strike system, where by users get two warnings about their file sharing and, if they continue to share, they have their internet access cut off.
Australian music piracy outfit MIPI have been lobbying for similar proposals to be considered there, and the Herald says insiders in the country's government have said they are watching the UK proposals closely, with the thinking being that if they became law here they might move to introduce similar rules there.
All of which will be happy reading for those in the music industry who advocate government intervention on this issue - though the ISPs are sure to be getting their lobbying machines ready to stop these proposals actually becoming law.