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• Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort) Bill 2023, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2023 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2023, 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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Accountability Regime (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023, Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort) Bill 2023, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2023 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2023, the bill amends: 12 Acts to make amendments consequential on the new financial accountability regime; and the

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  and

  Banking Act 1959

  to make amendments consequential on the end of the banking executive accountability regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Immunity) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to provide a judge of Division 2 of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) with the same protection and immunity as a judge of Division 1 of the FCFCOA; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: amend the parenting order framework by refining the list of ‘best interests’ factors, removing the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility and related equal time and substantial and significant time provision, and clarifying the circumstances in which a court can vary an existing parenting order; redraft provisions relating to compliance with, and enforcement of, parenting orders; amend definitions relating to the concept of ‘family’ to be more inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and traditions; permit the appointment of independent children’s lawyers (ICLs) in matters brought under the Hague Convention and require ICLs to meet with a child and give them an opportunity to express a view; clarify restrictions on communicating identifiable information arising in family proceedings; and enable standards and requirements to be prescribed for professionals who prepare family reports;

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to make consequential amendments;

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to: allow registrars of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) to be delegated the power to impose a make-up time parent order in contravention proceedings; bring forward the review of the Act by 2 years; and provide that a judge of the Family Court of Western Australia can be dually appointed as a judge of Division 1 of the FCFCOA; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to introduce ‘harmful proceedings orders’ and extend the ‘overarching purpose of family law practice and procedure’ and the accompanying duty to all proceedings instituted under the

  Family Law Act 1975

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Gives effect to the National Strategic Framework for Information Sharing between the Family Law and Family Violence and Child Protection Systems by amending the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to expand the information sharing framework for information relating to family violence, child abuse and neglect risks in parenting proceedings before the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, and the Family Court of Western Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Subsidy) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that child care subsidy debts for absences before a child’s first attendance or after a child’s last attendance are the responsibility of the approved provider, except for any withholding component paid to an individual in respect of the session of care which remains an individual debt. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: provide families earning up to $80,000 a child care subsidy (CCS) rate of 90 per cent, and families earning over $80,000 a CCS rate that tapers down by one percentage point for each additional $5,000 of family income until it reaches zero per cent for families earning $350,000; and provide additional discretion to allow payment of CCS for absences in exceptional circumstances;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: expand existing financial reporting requirements to all types of approved child care providers; enable the publication of certain information received from large child care providers online; require child care providers to collect gap fees via electronic funds transfer; make good governance an eligibility requirement for provider approval; enable the secretary to specify the information an attendance report by a provider must contain; clarify the interactions with CCS where providers waive gap fees for families in prescribed events or circumstances; and extend the period for passing on fee reduction amounts to families in limited circumstances;

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Subsidy) Act 2021

  to remove the existing higher CCS for families with multiple children (due to commence from July 2023);

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide for a base level of 36 subsidised hours of child care per fortnight for First Nations children, regardless of activity levels; permit child care providers to offer a discount on child care fees to staff engaged as educators, without this affecting the amount of CCS payable for the educator; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to abolish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide for transitional arrangements;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to apply certain provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  to: abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and provide for transitional arrangements; repeal the

  Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work 2016

  ; and rename the Act to the

  Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022

  ;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: amend the objects of the Act to include the promotion of job security and gender equity; guide the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in its consideration of equal remuneration and work value cases; establish a Pay Equity Expert Panel and a Care Community Sector Expert Panel to determine equal remuneration cases and certain award cases; prohibit pay secrecy; prohibit sexual harassment in connection with work; add the protected attributes of breastfeeding, gender identity and intersex status to the existing anti-discrimination provisions; limit the use of fixed term contracts; expand the circumstances in which an employee may request flexible work arrangements and empower the FWC to resolve disputes regarding flexible work arrangements; amend the requirements for approval of an enterprise agreement; simplify the process for initiating bargaining in certain circumstances; amend the Better Off Overall Test; enable the FWC to vary enterprise agreements to correct errors, defects or irregularities; provide for a new intractable bargaining declaration scheme; amend certain processes relating to industrial action and Protected Action Ballots; remove limitations on access to the low-paid bargaining stream and the single-interest employer authorisation stream; amend provisions relating to making multi-enterprise agreements (to be known as cooperative workplace agreements); amend small claims procedures to enable unpaid entitlement recovery; and prohibit national system employers from advertising employment at a rate of pay that would contravene the Act;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide that the FWC can only terminate an agreement that has nominally expired on the unilateral application of a party in limited circumstances;

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide for the sunsetting of all remaining transitional instruments; and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to update the worker's compensation presumptive liability provisions for firefighters. Also makes consequential amendments to four Acts and repeals the

  Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2016

  and

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that a breach of the

  Migration Act 1958

  does not affect the validity of a contract of employment or contract for services for the purposes of the Act; enable employees to take up to 100 days of flexible unpaid parental leave (UPL); enable employees to commence UPL at any time in the 24 months following the birth or placement of their child; enable employee couples to take UPL at the same time; allow pregnant employees to access flexible UPL in the 6 weeks prior to the expected birth of their child; enable parents to request an extension to their period of UPL regardless of the amount of leave the other parent has taken; insert an entitlement to superannuation in the National Employment Standards; clarify the operation of workplace determinations and enterprise agreements; expand the circumstances in which employees can authorise employers to make valid deduction from payments; and make minor technical amendments; and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992

  and

  Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Payroll Levy Collection Act 1992

  in relation to the accrual, reporting and payment of long service leave entitlements for casual employees working in the black coal mining industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to: casual employment; small business redundancy exemptions in insolvency contexts; enabling multiple franchisees to access the single-enterprise stream; transitioning from multi-enterprise agreements; model terms; regulated labour hire arrangement orders; workplace delegates’ rights; discrimination against employees subjected to family and domestic violence; sham contracting; exemptions to waive entry requirements for suspected underpayment and increasing maximum penalties for underpayments; compliance notices; introduction of a criminal offence for wage theft; the definition of employment; minimum standards and increased dispute resolution for employee-like workers performing digital platform work and regulated road transport industry contractors; and removal of a sunsetted clause relating to applications to vary modern awards;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to remove provisions relating to the withdrawal of parts of amalgamated organisations;

  Independent Contractors Act 2006

  to provide that the Act applies to independent contractors performing work remunerated at an amount exceeding the new contractor high income threshold;

  Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency Act 2013

  to expand the functions of the Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency in relation to silica safety and silica-related diseases;

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to implement presumptive liability provisions for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder; and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: introduce an offence of industrial manslaughter; and amend the offences and penalties framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum