It seems like the ATO will issue an update on 30th June.
That BRW report was published on 10th February, when the bitcoin price was $712. A lot has changed since then, and there are many reports and stories updated every day.
Not many of the stories on sites like Coindesk are about tax treatment. I suspect that the tax office, like the banks, are a bit flumoxxed for the time being.
The bitcoin price continues to be highly volatile, eg. varying by $10 in one minute earlier today.
The media seems to have moved away from pushing the illegal attraction of bitcoin, to a more stable analysis. The media will always criticise anything they don't understand, so hopefully they are now more familiar with the bitcoin world.
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