As the Article states:
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Economist Ian Harper and head of the review has proposed removing parallel import restrictions which give Australian copyright owners the right to control the distribution of their products in Australia.
The proposal does not, however, affect books sold online to Australians. There are currently no barriers to individuals buying books from giant international retailers like Amazon and this won’t change.
Such restrictions apply only to the importation of commercial quantities of a title that a publisher holds the rights to publish in Australia. Even then, a rights holder must make the title available here within a short time of its release internationally.
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So what on earth do they think they'll achieve by continuing restrictions.