Is it a legal requirement for domestic cats to be contained at night?

Here in Australia it is estimated that cats kill 1.5 billion native mammals, birds and reptiles a year.
Yet there is no across the nation law that legislates cats be contained at night.
Local councils say they have no legal powers to restrict domestic cat movements.
While they dither, millions upon millions of our precious native critters are slain.

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UnderLockDown · M

I'm not in Australia, so the critter population is a bit different, but here we would be over run with rabbits, squirrels, field mice, gophers and rats, if it weren't for the cats.
The rabbits and a couple of the rat species aren't native, and we no longer have small predators like the california ferret, so I'm good with the cats running around.
You guys have those adorable possums, it would be a shame if they were wiped out. Too bad the cats don't selectively hunt the rabbits and leave the natives alone.