A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
TOTAL RESULTS: 473
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28 Jul 2022
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to replace the current entitlement in the National Employment Standards to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period with an entitlement to ten days of paid leave for full-time, part-time and casual employees; extend the definition of family and domestic violence to include conduct of a current or former intimate partner of an employee, or a member of an employee's household; and extend the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave to non-national system employees once the International Labour Organization Convention on Violence and Harassment
(No. 190) comes into force for Australia.
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22 Nov 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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ALBANESE, Anthony, MP
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to ensure all workers employed through labour hire companies will receive the same wage as employees employed directly.
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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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 Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 3) Bill 2021, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2021 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2021, the bill establishes a financial accountability regime to impose accountability, key personnel, deferred remuneration and notification obligations on directors and senior executives of financial entities in the banking, insurance and superannuation industries.
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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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 Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2021, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2021 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2021, the bill amends: 12 Acts to make amendments consequential on the new financial accountability regime;
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998
and Banking Act 1959
to make amendments consequential on the end of the banking executive accountability regime; and the Corporations Act 2001
, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
and National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
to establish the financial services compensation scheme of last resort to provide compensation to eligible consumers where the Australian Financial Complaints Authority has made a determination in their favour that remains unpaid.
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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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 Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2021, Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 3) Bill 2021 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2021, the bill provides for the collection and administration of the levy imposed by the
Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Act 2021
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2021, Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 3) Bill 2021 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2021, the bill imposes a levy on certain industry entities to recover the cost of the compensation scheme of last resort.
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25 Aug 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Home Affairs
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Amends the:
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
to: enable the Director-General of Security to apply for a warrant authorising the interception of a communication for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence from foreign communications; provide that foreign intelligence information provided in certain circumstances may be used for purposes as approved by the Attorney-General; and make technical amendments; and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979
and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
to enable the Attorney-General to issue foreign intelligence warrants to collect foreign intelligence on Australians in Australia who are acting for, or on behalf of, a foreign power.
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- Date
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24 Jun 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Skills and Employment
- Summary
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Amends the
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: remove the annual child care subsidy (CCS) cap so that there will no longer be a limit on the amount of CCS that families, over a specified income, can receive each year; and increase the maximum subsidy rate of CCS for second and subsequent children, where a family has more than one child under 6 years of age.
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24 Jun 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
, Corporations Act 2001
and three other Acts to: expand the role of the Financial Services and Credit Panel to operate as a single disciplinary body for financial advisers; create new penalties and sanctions for financial advisers who have breached their obligations under the Corporations Act 2001
; introduce a two-stage registration process for financial advisers; transfer functions from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to the minister and to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; and introduce a single registration and disciplinary system for financial advisers who provide tax (financial) advice services; and Corporations Act 2001 to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2020
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- Date
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02 Jun 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Water and the Environment
- Summary
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Amends the
Farm Household Support Act 2014
to waive the repayment of certain classes of debts for farm household allowance (FHA) recipients arising from the business income reconciliation process for FHA payments between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2020.
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