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: 159
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31 Aug 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Introduced with the Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, the bill: re-establishes the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (ABC Commissioner) and the Australian Building and Construction Commission; enables the minister to issue a Building Code; provides for the appointment and functions of the Federal Safety Commissioner; prohibits certain unlawful industrial action; prohibits coercion, discrimination and unenforceable agreements; provides the ABC Commissioner with powers to obtain information; provides for orders for contraventions of civil remedy provisions and other enforcement powers; and makes miscellaneous amendments in relation to self-incrimination, protection of liability against officials, admissible records and documents, protection and disclosure of information, powers of the Commissioner in certain proceedings, and jurisdiction of courts.
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02 Mar 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Communications
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: abolish the ‘75% audience reach rule’ which prohibits commercial television broadcasting licensees from controlling licences whose combined licence area populations exceed 75 per cent of the population of Australia; abolish the ‘2 out of 3 cross-media control rule’ which prohibits control over more than two out of three regulated media platforms in any one commercial radio licence area; and provide additional local programming obligations for regional commercial television broadcasting licensees.
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25 Feb 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture and Water Resources
- Summary
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Amends the
Biological Control Act 1984
to clarify the definition of an organism to reflect the use of viruses and sub-viral agents as agent and target organisms for biological control activities in the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory).
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11 Feb 2016
- 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
Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Act 2015
to give effect to a mediated settlement agreement in a representative proceeding in the Federal Court of Australia (Duval-Comrie v Commonwealth of Australia
(VID 1367 of 2013)) and make administrative changes by: increasing one-off payments from 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the difference between the actual wage paid to an eligible person and the amount they would have been paid had the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool (BSWAT) productivity-only component been applied; providing a ‘top up’ payment for persons who have already received a 50 per cent payment under the BSWAT payment scheme; removing the current compulsory requirement to obtain legal advice before any payments are made; extending all relevant scheme dates by 12 months; clarifying certain administrative arrangements; and enabling a deceased person’s legal personal representative to engage with the payment scheme on their behalf.
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02 Feb 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Introduced with the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 [No. 2], the bill: repeals the
Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012
; makes consequential amendments to the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
and Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-Vesting) Act 1987
; amends the proposed Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2013
as a consequence of new Australian Privacy Principles; and provides for transitional arrangements.
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- Date
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02 Feb 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Introduced with the Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No. 2], the bill: re-establishes the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (ABC Commissioner) and the Australian Building and Construction Commission; enables the minister to issue a Building Code; provides for the appointment and functions of the Federal Safety Commissioner; prohibits certain unlawful industrial action; prohibits coercion, discrimination and unenforceable agreements; provides the ABC Commissioner with powers to obtain information; provides for orders for contraventions of civil remedy provisions and other enforcement powers; and makes miscellaneous amendments in relation to self-incrimination, protection of liability against officials, admissible records and documents, protection and disclosure of information, powers of the Commissioner in certain proceedings, and jurisdiction of courts.
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- Date
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02 Dec 2015
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications and the Arts
- Summary
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Amends the:
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to: remove the restricted datacasting licence category; remove the requirement for the digital radio moratorium period; remove spent provisions; and make consequential amendments; Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to remove the minister’s role in the setting of the digital radio start-up day in regional licence areas; and Radiocommunications Act 1992
to amend the definition of ‘non-foundation digital radio multiplex transmitter licence’ to exclude category 3 multiplex licences.
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- Date
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19 Aug 2015
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications
- Summary
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: enable commercial and national free-to-air broadcasters to provide their primary television broadcasting services in standard definition or high definition; and make consequential amendments.
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13 Aug 2015
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Amends the:
Banking Act 1959
and Life Insurance Act 1995
to: extend to seven years the period before funds held by authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADI) and life insurance providers are treated as unclaimed moneys; and provide only authorised access to information on unclaimed moneys; Banking Act 1959
to: exempt ADI accounts created for children and those that are held in a foreign currency from the unclaimed money provisions; remove the requirement for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission to publish details of unclaimed moneys in the Unclaimed Moneys Gazette; and expand the circumstances in which account holders can keep their ADI accounts active; and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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27 Nov 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture
- Summary
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Part of a package of five bills to provide for a regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the
Quarantine Act 1908
), the bill: repeals the Quarantine Act 1908
and Quarantine Charges (Collection) Act 2014
; makes consequential amendments to 20 Acts to update references to managing biosecurity risk under the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
, and substitute references to Quarantine Act 1908
with the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
; and makes transitional arrangements in relation to the management of biosecurity risks from the Quarantine Act 1908
to the new biosecurity framework under the proposed Biosecurity Act 2014
.
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