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TOTAL RESULTS: 473
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08 Feb 2018
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures No. 2) Bill 2018, the bill amends the
Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015
to impose reconciliation fees on developers who sell a near-new dwelling to a foreign person under a near-new dwelling exemption certificate.
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05 Feb 2018
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BANDT, Adam, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to amend the National Employment Standards to enable an employee who experiences family or domestic violence to take up to 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per year or 2 days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave for each permissible occasion.
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07 Dec 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Introduced with the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017, the bill imposes a charge on applications for registration or renewal of registration under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.
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07 Dec 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Introduced with the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Charges Imposition) Bill 2017, the bill establishes the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme to: require registration by certain persons undertaking certain activities on behalf of a foreign principal; require registrants to disclose information about the nature of their relationship with the foreign principal and activities undertaken pursuant to that relationship; place additional disclosure requirements on registrants during elections and other voting periods; establish a register of scheme information and provide for certain information to be made publicly available; provide the secretary with powers to obtain information and documents; and establish various penalties for non-compliance with the scheme.
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06 Dec 2017
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Family Law Act 1975
to: provide for courts to be prescribed in regulations as having the same family law parenting jurisdiction as state and territory courts of summary jurisdiction; provide for regulations to prescribe an increased total property value under which relevant courts can hear contested family law property matters without the parties’ consent; provide that a court may give short-form reasons for decisions relating to interim parenting orders; provide family law courts with an explicit power to dismiss unmeritorious applications; provide judges the discretion to dispense with requirements to explain an order or injunction to a child where it would be in the best interests of the child; remove the 21 day time limit on the revival, variation or suspension of family law orders by state and territory courts in family violence order proceedings; provide that a breach of a family law injunction for personal protection is a criminal offence; remove self-induced intoxication as a defence against charges relating to family violence; provide that criminal responsibility does not extend to the person protected by an injunction for personal protection if their conduct results in a breach of the injunction; provide for state and territory courts to revive, vary or suspend an injunction for personal protection when hearing a proceeding for a breach of that injunction; and repeal a redundant provision that permits a court to make an order relieving a party to a marriage from an obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights; and Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999
to make a consequential amendment.
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06 Dec 2017
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends: the
Family Law Act 1975
to: establish the Parenting Management Hearings Panel as an independent statutory authority to provide self-represented litigants with an alternative to the court process for resolving parenting disputes; 11 Acts to make consequential amendments; and various Acts contingent on the commencement of the proposed Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2017
, proposed Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Act 2017
and proposed Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2017
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19 Oct 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
to: prohibit terms of a modern award or an enterprise agreement requiring or permitting contributions for the benefit of an employee to be made to any fund other than a superannuation fund, a registered worker entitlement fund or a registered charity; require any term of a modern award or enterprise agreement that names a worker entitlement fund or insurance product to provide for an employee to choose another fund or insurance product; prohibit any term of a modern award, enterprise agreement or contract of employment permitting or requiring employee contributions to an election fund for an industrial association; and prohibit any action with the intent to coerce an employer to pay amounts to a particular worker entitlement fund, superannuation fund, training fund, welfare fund or employee insurance scheme; Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: require registered organisations to adopt, and periodically review, financial management policies; require registered organisations to keep credit card records and report certain loans, grants and donations; require specific disclosure by registered organisations and employers of the financial benefits obtained by them and persons linked to them in connection with employee insurance products, welfare fund arrangements and training fund arrangements; and introduce a range of new penalties relating to compliance with financial management, disclosure and reporting requirements; and Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
, Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to make consequential amendments.
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19 Oct 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Amends the
Banking Act 1959
, Insurance Act 1973
, Life Insurance Act 1995
and five other Acts to give the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority additional powers for crisis resolution and resolution planning in relation to regulated entities, including in relation to: statutory and judicial management; directions powers; transfer powers; conversion and write-off of capital instruments; stay provisions; foreign branches; the Financial Claims Scheme; and wind-up and other matters.
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14 Sep 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Social Services
- Summary
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Amends the:
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
to: extend the interim period that applies for recently-established court-ordered care arrangements; and provide incentives for the person with increased care to take reasonable action to participate in family dispute resolution where a care dispute relates to an older court order, a parenting plan or a written agreement; Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
to: allow the Child Support Registrar to take into account an amended tax assessment in an administrative assessment of child support in certain circumstances; allow courts to set aside child support agreements made before 1 July 2008; and allow all child support agreements to be set aside without having to go to court if certain circumstances change; A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
, Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
and Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988
to: align the methods for recovery of a child support overpayment from a payee with the methods for recovering a child support debt from a payer; provide that all backdated reductions to a child support assessment collected will be recoverable; and insert new backdating provisions for retrospectively creating a child support overpayment or underpayment due to a change of circumstances; and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: provide that an individual will have their FTB Part A daily rate reduced by approximately $2.02 per day if their child does not meet the health check requirements under the Healthy Start for School initiative before their fifth birthday or if they do not comply with the immunisation requirements for their child; and allow the secretary to require that requests for certain exemptions from the immunisation requirements be made in a particular form and manner, contain any information and be accompanied by any documents required by the secretary.
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- Date
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11 Sep 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
to: allow for minimum standards under the National Employment Standards to relate to superannuation contributions; and require employers to provide information to employees in relation to employer superannuation contributions for each pay period; Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
to: clarify that amounts contributed to a superannuation fund by an employee or Retirement Savings Account under a salary sacrifice arrangement are not employer contributions; remove the current exemption for employers not to make superannuation contributions to employees who are paid less than $450 in a calendar month; remove certain restrictions on choice of superannuation fund; and provide for a review of employers’ compliance with superannuation payment obligations by the Commissioner of Taxation; Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
to create a duty for trustees of superannuation entities to take reasonable steps to notify their members when it could reasonably have expected them to have received a contribution from an employer, but did not; and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to require additional information to be provided to the commissioner in annual member information statements.
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