Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders |
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 |
Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission Bill 1989, Bills
Digest, no. 41, 18 May 1989. |
To establish
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Administrative law |
Legislative
Instruments Act 2003 |
M
Coombs, Legislative Instruments Bill 2003, Bills Digest, no. 26,
2003-04, 9 September 2003 |
To
establish a regime to reform and manage procedures for the making, scrutiny
and publication of Commonwealth legislative instruments |
Amending Acts 1901‑1969
Repeal Act 2014 |
J
Murphy, Amending Acts 1901‑1969 Repeal Bill 2014, Bills digest, no. 59, 2013‑14,
8 April 2014. |
To
repeal over 1,000 amending and repeal Acts identified by the Government as
being redundant. |
Amending Acts 1970 to 1979 Repeal
Act 2014 |
K
Magarey, Amending Acts 1970 to 1979 Repeal Bill 2014, Bills digest, no. 57, 2014‑15, 27
November 2014. |
To
repeal 656 amending and repeal Acts identified as redundant. |
Amending Acts 1980 to 1989 Repeal
Act 2015 |
K
Magarey, Amending Acts 1980 to 1989 Repeal Bill 2015, Bills digest, no 103, 2014–15, 12 May 2015. |
To
remove a significant number of ‘spent Acts’ – amending or repealing Acts
which are no longer required as the legal changes they were designed to make
have occurred. Schedule 1 repeals 870 obsolete or redundant amending or
repeal Acts. |
Norfolk Island Legislation
Amendment Act 2015 |
C
Madden, Norfolk Island Legislation
Amendment Act 2015, Bills digest, no. 102, 2014–15, 12 May 2015. |
Introduced
to radically overhaul the governance arrangements that currently operate on
NI and starts the transition of NI from a self-governing territory to a modern
local government type authority. |
Biosecurity |
Biosecurity Act 2015 |
|
The Bill represents a major rewrite
of the Quarantine Act 1908 and is based not just on the quarantine
power, but also on a number of other Constitutional powers which
provide the foundation for broader coverage to address changing patterns of
overseas trade and Australia’s international obligations. |
Business |
Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998 |
B
Bailey, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Amendment Bill 2003, Bills Digest, no.
172, 2002-03 ,
13 June 2003 |
The main
purpose of the Bill is to change the leadership and governance of the
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority arising from the recommendations
contained in the report of the HIH Royal Commission |
Australian
Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 |
M
Tapley, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Bill 2001, Bills Digest , no. 144,
2000-01, 4 June 2001, |
To
remove constitutional doubts about the framework for corporate regulation by
substantially re-enacting the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission Act 1989 based on powers referred by the States. |
Corporations Act
2001 |
M
Tapley, Corporations Bill 2001, Bills Digest , no. 140,
2000-01, 1 June 2001. |
Substantially
re-enacts the existing Corporations Law of the ACT as a Commonwealth Act
applying throughout Australia |
National Consumer
Credit Protection Act 2009 |
P Tan, National
Consumer Credit Protection Bill 2009, Bills Digest , no. 30,
2009-10, 15 September 2009. |
To
implement the new national consumer credit regulation framework, which will
replace the current State based regulatory framework known as the Uniform
Consumer Credit Code |
Citizenship |
Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to
Australia) Act 2015 |
M Harrison-Smith and C Barker, Australian
Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015, Bills digest, 15, 2015–16, 2 September 2015. |
The Bill will amend the Australian
Citizenship Act 2007 to provide for ‘automatic’ cessation of the
Australian citizenship (including that obtained at birth) of a dual national
where that person:
– renounces their Australian
citizenship by engaging in certain conduct relating to terrorism and ‘foreign
incursions’
– fights for, or is in the service
of, a ‘declared terrorist organisation’ outside Australia (expanding an
existing provision concerning serving in the armed forces of a country at war
with Australia) or
– is convicted of a specified
offence. |
Climate change |
Climate Change
Authority Act 2011 |
J
Tomaras, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011, Bills Digest , no. 67,
2011-12, 28 October 2011. |
Creates
the statutory Australian Climate Change Authority (the Authority), which is
intended to act as an independent body providing the Government with expert
advice on key aspects of the carbon pricing mechanism and mitigation goals. |
Carbon Credits
(Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 |
A
Talberg, J Gardiner-Garden, J Tomaras, Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming
Initiative) Bill 2011, Bills Digest , no. 5, 2011-12,
1 July 2011. |
One of a
package of three related Bills which establishes a voluntary carbon offset
scheme with the purpose of creating incentives for carbon abatement or
avoidance projects in land-use sectors. |
Carbon Farming Initiative
Amendment Act 2014 |
K
Swoboda, A St John, J Tomaras, Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment
Bill 2014, Bills digest, no. 23, 2014‑15, 3
September 2014. |
Amends
the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 to implement
the main part of the Coalition Government’s ‘direct action’ emissions
reduction policy—the establishment of arrangements to support the purchase of
domestic emissions abatement through the ‘emissions reduction fund’. |
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon
Tax Repeal) Act 2014 |
|
Part of
a package of 8 bills to remove the carbon pricing mechanism. |
Communications and
media |
Australian
Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 |
P
O'Neill and P Prince, Australian Communications and Media Authority Bill
2004, Bills Digest , no. 78,
2004-05, 9 December 2004. |
Established
the ACMA for the regulation of broadcasting, radiocommunications and telecommunications
(part of a package of 10 Bills) |
Broadcasting
Services Act 1992 |
|
Regulates
commercial radio and television (content, ownership, etc.) |
Do Not Call
Register Act 2006 |
MA
Neilsen, Do Not Call Register Bill 2006, Bills Digest , no. 160,
2005-06, 19 June 2006. |
|
Radiocommunications
Act 1992 |
|
|
Spam Act 2003 |
|
|
Special
Broadcasting Service Act 1991 |
|
Regulates
SBS radio and television |
Telecommunications
Act 1997 |
K
Jackson and L Jones, Telecommunications Bill 1996, Bills Digest , no. 87,
1996-97, 5 December 1996. |
Regulates
the telecommunications industry |
Telstra
Corporation Act 1991 |
|
Provides
for the ownership and operation of Telstra |
Telecommunications Act
1989 |
Telecommunications
Bill 1989, Bills
Digest, no. 35, 5 May 1989. |
To provide
for greater competition in the provision of value added services and private
network services. The Bill will also reserve certain telecommunication
services for Telecom, OTC and AUSSAT, and establish the Australian
Telecommunications Authority as a statutory corporation responsible for the
regulation of the telecommunications industry. |
Computers |
Circuit Layouts
Act 1989 |
Circuit
Layouts Bill 1988, Bills
Digest, no. 171, 1 February 1989. |
To provide
protection for original circuit layouts of integrated circuits. |
Telecommunications
Act 1989 |
Telecommunications
Bill 1989, Bills
Digest, no. 35, 5 May 1989. |
To provide
for greater competition in the provision of value added services and private
network services. The Bill will also reserve certain telecommunication
services for Telecom, OTC and AUSSAT, and establish the Australian
Telecommunications Authority as a statutory corporation responsible for the
regulation of the telecommunications industry. |
Courts |
Judicial
Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Act 2012 |
M
Biddington, Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary
Commissions) Bill 2012, Bills Digest , no. 171,
2011-12, 26 June 2012. |
The
purpose of this Bill is to provide a mechanism to assist the Parliament in its
consideration of removal from office of a judge or federal magistrate under
the Constitution. |
Tribunals Amalgamation Act 2015 |
M Coombs, C Petrie and D Spooner, Tribunals
Amalgamation Bill 2015, Bills digest, no. 83, 2014–15, 19 March 2015. |
To amend a number of Acts to
amalgamate the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and the Migration Review
Tribunal—Refugee Review Tribunal with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. |
Criminal law |
Australian Crime
Commission Act 2002 |
|
|
Aviation
Transport Security Act 2004 |
|
|
Crimes at Sea Act
2000 |
|
|
Criminal Code Act
1995 |
|
|
Intelligence
Services Act 2001 |
|
|
Law Enforcement
Integrity Commissioner Act 2006 |
|
|
Maritime
Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 |
|
|
Model Criminal
Code 1st edition, 28 May 2009 |
|
|
National Security
Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 |
|
|
Proceeds of Crime
Act 2002 |
|
|
Anti-People
Smuggling and Other Measures Act 2010 |
E
Karlsen, Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010, Bills Digest , no. 11,
2009-10, 11 March 2010. |
Among
other things, this Bill proposes to harmonise existing offences between Acts
and create new people smuggling offences. |
National Security
Legislation Amendment Act 2010 |
M
Biddington and M Harrison-Smith, National Security Legislation Amendment
Bill 2010, Bills Digest , no. 21,
2010-11, 27 October 2010. |
Reforms
implementing the Government's response to several independent and
parliamentary committee reviews of Australian national security and
counter‐terrorism legislation. |
Crimes
Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People
Trafficking) Act 2013 |
M
Biddington and C Barker, Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery,
Slavery-Like Conditions and People Trafficking) Bill 2012, Bills Digest , no. 14,
2012-13, 24 August 2012. |
Will
establish new offences of forced labour, forced marriage, organ trafficking
and harbouring a victim. The Bill will also modify the scope and application
of existing offences of slavery, deceptive recruiting, sexual servitude and
trafficking in persons |
Crimes Legislation Amendment (Harming Australians)
Act 2015 |
J Mills, Crimes Legislation
Amendment (Harming Australians) Bill 2015, Bills digest, 48, 2015–16, 12 November 2015. |
To amend the Criminal Code Act
1995 to extend the existing retrospective application of the offences of
murder and manslaughter of Australians overseas to apply to offences
occurring prior to 1 October 2002. |
Criminal Code Amendment (War Crimes) Act 2016 |
C Raymond and J
Tomaras, Criminal Code Amendment (War Crimes) Bill 2016, Bills Digest, 43, 2016–17, 23 November 2016. |
Proposes to amend the war
crimes offences in the Criminal Code Act 1995 to address some anomalies in the treatment of acts done in the course of a
‘non-international armed conflict’ with the requirements of international
humanitarian law (IHL). These anomalies are said to limit the capability of
the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to undertake international security
operations, and may expose members of the ADF to domestic criminal liability
despite acting in compliance with the requirements of IHL. |
Criminal Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist
Offenders) Act 2016 |
M Biddington, Criminal
Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2016, Bills Digest, 48, 2016–17, 29 November 2016. |
Amends the Criminal Code Act 1995 to establish a scheme for the continuing detention of high risk terrorist
offenders who are considered by a judge in civil proceedings to present an
unacceptable risk to the community at the conclusion of their custodial
sentence. |
Criminal Code Amendment (Protecting Minors Online)
Act 2017 |
M Biddington, Criminal
Code Amendment (Protecting Minors Online) Bill 2017, Bills Digest |
The
purpose of the Act is to introduce an offence to criminalise acts done using
a carriage service to prepare or plan to cause harm to, procure, or engage in
sexual activity with, a person under the age of 16. This expressly includes a
person misrepresenting their age online as part of a plan to cause harm to
another person under 16 years of age. |
Defence |
Military
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 |
|
|
Education and
training |
Education and Other
Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2017 |
J Griffiths, C Ey, P Pyburne, Education and Other
Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2017, Bills
Digest. |
To amend the Ombudsman Act 1976 to establish the
office of the VET Student Loans Ombudsman. In addition, the Bill amends the Australian
Research Council Act 2001 to update indexation against appropriation
funding caps for existing legislated amounts and includes an additional
forward estimate amount. |
Energy |
Clean Energy Act
2011 |
K
Swoboda, J Tomaras and Alan Payne, Clean Energy Bill 2011, Bills Digest , no. 68,
2011-12, 28 October 2011. |
|
Clean Energy
Finance Corporation Act 2012 |
|
|
Minerals Resource
Rent Tax Act 2012 |
J
Tomaras, Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011, Bills Digest , no. 124,
2011-12, 19 March 2012. |
|
Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal
and Other Measures Act 2014 |
|
An Act to remove the
minerals resource rent tax, or mining tax, among other things. |
Employment |
Building and
Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 |
|
|
Fair Work Act
2009 |
|
|
Public Service
Act 1999 |
|
|
Parliamentary
Service Act 1999 |
|
|
Workplace
Relations Amendment (Workchoices) Act 2005 |
|
|
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Act
2016 |
J Murphy, Fair
Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014, Bills Digest, 40, 2016–17, 21 November 2016. |
The Bill is framed partly
as a response to widely publicised misconduct by officers of the Health
Services Union and other evidence of poor governance of some trade unions
uncovered by the Royal Commission into trade union governance and corruption.
The stated aim of the Bill is to improve the standard of governance of
registered organisations and deter wrongdoing by amending the Fair Work
(Registered Organisations) Act 2009. |
Environmental law |
Ozone Protection
Act 1989 |
Ozone
Protection Bill 1988, Bills
Digest, no. 135, 28 November 1988. |
To establish
a system of controls to reduce the manufacture, import, export, distribution
and use of ozone - depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons. |
Family law |
Family Law
Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Act 2008 |
MA
Neilsen, Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other
Measures) Bill 2008, Bills Digest , no. 9, 2008-09,
25 August 2008. |
To
extend federal jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to
financial matters arising out of the breakdown of de facto relationships,
including both opposite sex and same sex relationships. |
Australian Citizenship Amendment
(Intercountry Adoption) Act 2014 |
M
Neilsen, Australian Citizenship Amendment (Intercountry Adoption) Bill
2014, Bills digest, no. 8, 2014‑15,
14 July 2014. |
To
create an entitlement to citizenship for children adopted under bilateral
arrangements equivalent to the entitlement currently provided for children
adopted under Hague Convention arrangements. |
Enhancing Online Safety for
Children Act 2015 |
G
Butler, Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014, Bills digest, no 78, 2014–15, 2 March 2015. |
The Bill
creates a new statutory office, the Children’s e-Safety Commissioner, and
provides for the Commissioner to administer a complaints scheme regarding
harmful cyber-bullying material targeted at an Australian child. |
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Amendment Act
2017 |
M Biddington, Enhancing
Online Safety for Children Amendment Bill 2017, Bills Digest. |
To amend the Enhancing
Online Safety for Children Act 2015 (the Act) to broaden the functions of
the Children’s eSafety Commissioner to include online safety for all
Australians. As part of the amendments, the name of the Act will be amended,
to be known as the Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015. |
Health |
Research
Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 |
|
|
Prohibition of Human
Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 |
|
To
prohibit certain practices associated with reproductive technologies,
including the cloning of a human being. |
Tobacco
Plain Packaging Act 2011 |
M Thomas, Tobacco
Plain Packaging Bill 2011, Bills
Digest, no. 35, 2011-12, 24 August 2011. |
To
prohibit the use of all tobacco industry logos, brand imagery, colours and
promotional text on the retail packaging of tobacco products. |
Therapeutic Goods Act
1989 |
Therapeutic Goods Bill 1989, Bills
Digest, no. 123, 24 October 1989. |
To establish standards and provide an assessment and licensing system
to regulate the import, export, supply and manufacturing of certain
therapeutic goods. |
Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 |
A Grove, Australian Immunisation
Register Bill 2015, Bills digest, no. 25, 2015–16, 1 October 2015. |
To create a consolidated legislative framework
to govern the operation of Australian immunisation registers and
to expand the age range covered by
the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register from children under seven to
‘young individuals’ under 20 years of age. |
Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Increasing
Consumer Choice) Act 2016 |
Aged Care
Legislation Amendment (Increasing Consumer Choice) Bill 2016, Bills Digest, 94, 2015–16, 1 March 2016. |
Will allocate home care packages (HCPs)
directly to consumers, rather than to approved providers, create a national
system for prioritising consumer access to HCPs and reduce regulation of the
approval process for all aged care providers. |
Migration |
Migration and Maritime Powers
Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Act 2014 |
E
Karlsen, J Phillips, H Spinks, Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation
Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014, Bills digest, no. 40, 2014‑15,
23 October 2014. |
The
measures broaden the maritime enforcement powers used to intercept and return
vessels carrying asylum seekers. |
Migration Amendment (Regional Processing
Arrangements) Act 2015 |
|
To provide statutory authority which
applies where the Commonwealth has entered into an arrangement with another
country with respect to the regional processing functions of that country. |
Human rights |
Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act 2017 |
|
Amends (among other
things) the: Racial Discrimination Act 1975 to: amend section 18C,
which prohibits offensive behaviour based on racial hatred, to replace the
words ‘offend’, ‘insult’ and ‘humiliate’ with ‘harass’ (resulting in the
formulation ‘harass or intimidate’); and provide that an assessment of
whether an act is reasonably likely to harass or intimidate a person or group
of persons is made against the standard of a reasonable member of the
Australian community. |
Intellectual property |
Patents Act 1990 |
Patents Bill 1990, Bills Digest, no. 67, 5 July 1989. |
To repeal the Patents Act 1952 and
replace it as the principle piece of legislation dealing with patents in
Australia. |
Copyright
Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015 |
|
To introduce a key reform to reduce
online copyright infringement. |
Marriage |
Marriage
Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 |
Marriage Amendment
(Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017, Bills
Digest |
Amends the: Marriage
Act 1961 to: redefine marriage as ‘a union of two people’; introduce
non-gendered language so that the requirements of the Act apply equally to
all marriages; enable same-sex marriages that have been, or will be,
solemnised under the law of a foreign country to be recognised in Australia;
amend the definition of ‘authorised celebrant’ to include new categories of
religious marriage celebrants and certain Australian Defence Force officers;
enable ministers of religion, religious marriage celebrants, chaplains and
bodies established for religious purposes to refuse to solemnise or provide
facilities, goods and services for marriages on religious grounds; and make
amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed Civil Law and
Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2017; and Sex Discrimination Act
1984 to provide that a refusal by a minister of religion, religious
marriage celebrant or chaplain to solemnise marriage in prescribed
circumstances does not constitute unlawful discrimination. |
Native Title |
Native Title Act
1993 |
A
Twomey, Native Title Bill 1993, Bills Digest , no. 63, 1993,
23 November 1993. |
To
recognise and protect native title |
Northern
Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 . Repealed by Stronger Futures in the Northern
Territory (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2012 |
K
Magarey and others, Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill
2007, Bills Digest , no. 28,
2007-08, 13 August 2007. |
Now
repealed. Package of Bills issued in response to Little Children are
Sacred": The Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the
Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse . |
Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use
Agreements) Act 2017 |
C Raymond, Native Title
Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017, Bills Digest. |
The Act proposes to: a.
confirm the legal status and enforceability of agreements which have been
registered by the Native Title Registrar on the Register of Indigenous Land
Use Agreements without the signature of all members of a registered native
title claimant; b. enable registration of agreements which have been made but
have not yet been registered on the Register of Indigenous Land Use
Agreements; and c. ensure that in the future, area ILUAs can be registered
without requiring every member of the RNTC to be a party to the agreement. |
Nuclear energy |
Australian
Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998 |
S
Downing and J Prest, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety
Bill 1998, Bills Digest , no. 211,
1997-98, 14 May 1998 (for previously lapsed Bill). |
Introduces
regulatory controls for all Commonwealth radiation and nuclear safety
activities. |
Comprehensive
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Act 1998 |
S
Downing, Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Bill 1998, Bills Digest , no. 190, 1997‑98,
7 May 1998. |
The Bill
prohibits the causing of any nuclear explosion at any place under Australian
control. |
Nuclear
Safeguards (Producers of Uranium Ore Concentrates) Charge Act 1993 : |
|
Imposes
a tax on uranium miners to fund the operations of the Australian Safeguards
and Non-Proliferation Office. |
Parliament/public
service |
Public
Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 |
D Weight and N Horne, Public Governance, Performance
and Accountability Bill 2013, Bills
Digest, no. 162, 2012-13, 27 June 2013. |
About the governance, performance and accountability of,
and the use and management of public resources by, the Commonwealth,
Commonwealth entities and Commonwealth companies. |
Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Act 2017 |
C Madden, Parliamentary
Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017, Bills Digest |
Amends the: Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 to enable people, vehicles and goods to undergo aviation security screening
within an airside area or zone at a security controlled airport; and Aviation
Transport Security Act 2004 and Maritime Transport and Offshore
Facilities Security Act 2003 to enable the secretary to delegate his or
her powers to lower level Australian Public Service employees. |
Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act
2017 |
|
Introduced with the Independent
Parliamentary Expenses Authority (Consequential Amendments) Act 2017, the
Act: establishes the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority as an
independent statutory authority with responsibilities in relation to expenses
and allowances of parliamentarians and their staff; provides for the
Authority’s functions, powers, liabilities, membership, and appointment of a
chief executive officer and staff; and provides for an independent review of
the Authority. |
Privacy |
Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act
2016 |
MA Neilsen, Privacy
Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, Bills Digest, 52, 2016–17, 8 December 2016. |
Implements recommendations
of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and the Australian Law
Reform Commission by amending the Privacy Act 1988 to require
agencies, organisations and certain other entities to provide notice to the
Australian Information Commissioner and affected individuals of an eligible
data breach. |
Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act
2017 |
MA Neilsen, Privacy
Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, Bills Digest |
Implements recommendations of the
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s Advisory
report on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data
Retention) Bill 2014 and the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report For
Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice by amending the Privacy
Act 1988 to require agencies, organisations and certain other entities to
provide notice to the Australian Information Commissioner and affected
individuals of an eligible data breach. |
Property |
Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land
Act 2015 |
|
Establishes a register, operated by
the Australian Taxation Office, of foreign ownership of agricultural land. |
Sex discrimination |
Sex
Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex
Status) Act 2013 |
Sex
Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex
Status) Bill 2013, Bills
Digest, no. 155, 21 June 2013. |
To provide new protections against discrimination on the basis of
a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status; provide
protection against discrimination for same-sex de facto couples. |
Tax |
Income Tax
Assessment Act 1997 |
|
|
A New Tax System
(Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 |
B
Bennett, A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Bill 1998, Bills Digest , no. 97,
1998-99, 28 January 1999. |
To
introduce a 10% tax on goods and services. |
Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2016
Measures No. 1) Act 2016 |
K Sanyal, Tax
and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016, Bills Digest, 116, 2015–16, 4 May 2016.
|
Ensures that the goods and
services tax (GST) is applied consistently to all supplies of digital
products and other imported services to Australian consumers. |
Transport/navigation |
Inspector of
Transport Security Act 2006 |
J
Clarke, Inspector of Transport Security Bill 2006, Bills Digest, no. 49,
2006-07, 1 November 2006. |
Inquire
into major transport security incidents and patterns or series of incidents
that point to a systemic failure or possible weaknesses or vulnerabilities in
aviation and maritime transport and security regulated offshore facilities. |
Carriage
of Goods by Sea Act 1991 |
Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill 1991, Bills Digest, 14 August 1991. |
To
implement up-dated rules regarding the responsibilities and liabilities of
those who carry goods by sea and for ship owners |
Navigation Act
2012 |
|
provides
for the regulation of international ship and seafarer safety, employment
conditions for Australian seafarers and shipboard aspects of protection of
the marine environment. |
Terrorism and
National Security |
Criminal Code Act
1995 |
|
|
Suppression of
the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 |
M
Tapley, Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2002, Bills Digest , no. 127,
2001-02, 1 May 2002. |
Aimed at
restricting the financial resources that are available to support the
activities of terrorist organisations. |
Border Security
Legislation Amendment Act 2002 |
I
Ireland, Border Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2002, Bills Digest , no. 123,
2001-02, 29 April 2002. |
Part of
a package of counter-terrorism legislation, some in relation to the
Australian Customs Service. |
National Security Legislation
Amendment Act (No. 1) 2014 |
M
Biddington, C Barker, National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1)
2014, Bills digest, no. 19, 2014‑15,
28 August 2014. |
The main
purpose of the Bill is to implement recommendations made in Chapter 4 of the
PJCIS’s Report of the Inquiry into
Potential Reforms of Australia’s National Security Legislation. |
Counter-Terrorism Legislation
Amendment (Foreign Fighters) Act 2014 |
C
Barker, M Biddington, M Coombs, M Klapdor, Counter-Terrorism
Legislation Amendment (Foreign Fighters) Bill 2014, Bills digest, no. 34, 2014‑15,
17 October 2014. |
To make
amendments to several existing Commonwealth Acts, to address the Government’s
response to the increased threat of terrorism posed by Australians engaging
in, and returning from, conflicts in foreign States. |
Australian Border Force Act 2015 |
C Barker, Australian Border Force
Bill 2015 [and] Customs and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian Border
Force) Bill 2015, Bills digest, no. 94, 2014–15, 7 May 2015. |
To establish the Australian Border
Force and ABF Commissioner within the Department of Immigration and Border
Protection. The Commissioner will be responsible for enforcement of customs
laws and border-related revenue collection. |
Telecommunications (Interception and Access)
Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 |
J Murphy and M Biddington, Telecommunications
(Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014, Bills digest, 89, 2014–15, 26 March 2015. |
Creates new obligations on
telecommunications and internet service providers to retain prescribed information
or documents (metadata) for a period of two years for the purposes of access
by national security authorities, criminal law-enforcement agencies and
enforcement agencies. The Bill also requires service providers to encrypt the
retained metadata (subject to certain exemptions). |
Welfare |
Aged Care Act
1997 |
L Jones, Aged Care Bill 1997, Bills Digest , no. 132,
1996-97, 26 March 1997 |
Relates
to classification and accreditation and funding of nursing homes and hostels, |
Human Services
(Centrelink) Act 1997 |
|
Establishes
the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency (commonly known as Centrelink) |
Child Support
(Assessment Act) 1989 |
|
To
ensure that children receive the proper level of child support from their
parents |
Social Security
Act 1991 |
|
|
Age
Discrimination Act 2004 |
K
Magarey, Age Discrimination Bill 2003, Bills Digest , no. 29,
2003-04, 8 September 2003. |
To
prohibit age discrimination in certain specified areas and to provide
exemptions from the prohibition in certain other areas. |
Disability
Discrimination Act 1992 |
Disability Discrimination Bill 1992, Bills Digest , 26 May 1992. |
To make
it unlawful, in a limited number of circumstances, to discriminate on grounds
of disability and establish within the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission the office of Disability Discrimination Commissioner. |
Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No
Pay) Act 2015 |
M Klapdor, Social Services
Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015, Bills digest, no. 36, 2015–16, 22 October 2015. |
Amends the A New Tax System
(Family Assistance) Act 1999 (the FA Act) to tighten the immunisation
requirements for the FTB-A supplement, CCB and CCR. It will remove the
exemption from the immunisation requirements for those who submit a conscientious
objection to immunisation and will remove the Minister for Social Services’
power to exempt a class of persons from the requirements by legislative
instrument. |