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• Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Women 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: include negligence as a fault element in relation to a category one offence; clarify that a work group is negotiated with workers who are proposed to form the work group; amend the obligation to train health and safety representatives to provide that representatives are entitled to choose a course of training; amend the process for the issuing and services of notices under the Act; enable an inspector, within 30 days of entering a workplace, to issue certain written notices relating to the reason for entry; specify that Comcare is able to share information with certain other persons for the purpose of performing functions under relevant laws; extend from 12 to 18 months the deadline for a person to make a request to the regulator to bring a prosecution for a category one or two offence; prohibit a person from entering into a contract of insurance to provide coverage over liability for monetary penalties imposed under the Act, and create a related offence; and

  Safe Work Australia Act 2008

  to specify that Safe Work Australia may be provided with information necessary to its data and evidence functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  and

  Basin Plan 2012

  to: expand the type of projects that can deliver the Basin Plan target of 450 gigalitres (GL) of additional environmental water; repeal the statutory 1,500 GL cap on Commonwealth water purchases; enable funds from the Water for the Environment Special Account to be used to enhance environmental outcomes in the Basin; provide additional time for Basin States to deliver Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) Adjustment Mechanism projects; enable the Inspector-General of Water Compliance to determine SDL compliance and require action plans; provide for a roadmap for the delivery of constraints relaxation projects across the Southern Basin; delay the review of the Act from 2024 until 2027; and implement recommendations of the

  Water market reform: final roadmap report

  in relation to water markets and water management in the Basin. Also amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to make technical amendments in relation to First Ministers’ Council; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Water Act 2007

  and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: provide annual reporting requirements for the Repatriation Medical Authority; and amend certain incorrect references;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to: replace references to ‘refuse to deal with the claim’ with ‘defer further investigation of the claim’ to better reflect actual practice; and provide for the alignment of rates of compensation for journey costs relating to treatment with the Comcare Scheme; and

  Defence Service Homes Act 1918

  in relation to the operation of, and conditions to vary, revoke and replace, the Statement of Conditions for the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to reduce the qualifying period of employment of Australian Defence Force firefighters in relation to primary site oesophageal cancer from 25 years to 15 years and change the requirement for firefighting to have been a ‘substantial’ proportion of their duties to be a ‘not insubstantial’ proportion;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to allow payments and benefits from Commonwealth and State or Territory employment programs to not be considered as income for income support means testing purposes;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to include a discretionary power to provide Commonwealth rent assistance beyond 26 weeks for eligible recipients who are temporarily absent from Australia and unable to return due to a prescribed event occurring; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend eligibility to the Defence, Veterans’ and Families’ Acute Support Package to grandparents who are full time carers of the children of a deceased veteran. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide a one-off increase to the pension payable to totally and permanently incapacitated veterans (known as the TPI payment). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Refining and Improving Our Tax System) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to: give legislative authority to the Convention between Australia and Iceland for the elimination of double taxation with respect to taxes on income and the prevention of tax evasion and avoidance; and make minor amendments to update various notes;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: exempt certain subsidiaries of the Future Fund Board from income tax and include them as entities eligible for a refund of a tax offset relating to a franked distribution; and transfer administration of three register deductible gift recipient categories and the Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme to the Commissioner of Taxation;

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Excise Act 1901

  to enable an eligible business entity liable for excise duty for excisable goods or customs duty for excise-equivalent goods, being fuel and alcohol, to align their excise returns and customs returns with the return period for other indirect taxes which are separately lodged through a business activity statement;

  Excise Act 1901

  to provide that the repackaging of beer that would otherwise be excise manufacture is not taken to be the manufacture of beer if it meets certain requirements; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to increase the maximum penalty applicable for anti-competitive behaviour and certain breaches of competition consumer law; and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: establish a civil penalty regime prohibiting the use of, and reliance on, unfair contract terms in standard form contracts; and expand the class of contracts that are covered by the unfair contract terms. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Modernising Business Communications and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: enable all documents under the Act to be signed electronically and for certain documents to be sent in either hard copy or electronic form; and provide that companies are not required to send documents to a member where contact details are known to be incorrect;

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  Tax Agent Services Act 2009

  to enable certain regulatory bodies to hold virtual hearings and examinations;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  to allow electronic payments to be used; 11 Acts to require notices in newspapers to be published in an accessible and reasonably prominent manner;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: remove erroneous references and redundant definitions; apply consistent headings to definitions sections; and make minor technical amendments;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to move five legislative instruments into primary law; and 15 Acts to make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Multinationals Pay Their Fair Share—Integrity and Transparency) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to require Australian public companies to disclose information about their subsidiaries in their annual financial reports by way of a ‘consolidated entity disclosure statement’; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to amend the thin capitalisation rules to limit the amount of debt deductions that multinational entities can claim in an income year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum