DECA Parliamentary Advisement

DECA Parliamentary Advisement 

The Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain is proudly co-chaired by Senator the Hon Andrew Bragg and the Hon Dr Andrew Charlton MP, reflecting strong bipartisan leadership. Together, they provide a trusted forum for open dialogue between Parliament and the digital economy, ensuring balanced engagement on emerging technologies, regulation, and innovation.

This national gathering highlights the platforms, protocols, and people working at the intersection of blockchain, digital assets, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, tokenisation, quantum readiness, intelligent infrastructure, and so much more!

Overview: Launch of DECA’s proactive policy paper, developed from the March 2025 Policy Forum.

The event brings together parliamentarians and DECA members to discuss key recommendations on tokenisation, digitalisation of trade, and tax reform. Sean White, Esosystem and Business Development Manager for XDC Network was the chair for this Roundtable on Trade Digitalisation – and at this special Policy handoff event, present summary findings of the 22-strong forum.

The Trade Digitalisation stream addresses our nation’s outdated reliance on paper-based systems. With global partners already implementing DLT-enabled and AI-powered digital trade platforms, Australia risks being left behind. The paper proposes the development of supportive domestic laws that actualise the terms of our signed international commitments, and swiftly adopting the most pressing UNCITRAL Model Laws. To achieve holistic productivity gains, it recommends embedding real-time gross settlements, leveraging Web3 smart contract programmability, and exploring advancements in automated compliance, all to further impact trade payments and financing, tax reporting, and customs processes.