To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On 18 December 2020 the Commonwealth Government issued a media release in relation to an increase to the minimum dollar threshold for issuance of a Bankruptcy Notice. As we have previously written the Commonwealth Government increased the threshold debt that a creditor could issue a Bankruptcy Notice for from $5,000 to $20,000 in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Those "protection measures" were scheduled to cease on 1 January 2021 and the threshold amount which a Bankruptcy Notice could be issued was expected to revert to $5,000. However, the Commonwealth Government has decided that the