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• National Security Legislation Amendment (Comprehensive Review and Other Measures No. 2) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  ,

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to prohibit the conferral of certain powers of the Attorney-General upon another minister;

  Law Officers Act 1964

  to remove the ability of the Attorney-General to delegate certain powers;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to provide defences for four offences relating to tampering or interfering with telecommunications carrier facilities, unauthorised modification of data and unauthorised impairment of electronic communications;

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: amend the membership of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security; and provide that the minister may direct the Australian Secret Intelligence Service to undertake activities of a specific or general nature, or by way of a class or classes;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to use, record and disclose spent convictions information;

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to provide annual reporting requirements in relation to public interest disclosures received by, and complaints made to, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS);

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to remove six intelligence agencies from the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s jurisdiction;

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to remove the exemption for documents relating to the non-intelligence functions of the Australian Hydrographic Office;

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Archives Act 1983

  to require proceedings in relation to security records under the

  Archives Act 1983

  to be heard in the Security Division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT); and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and

  Archives Act 1983

  to provide that the IGIS is obliged to provide evidence in proceedings only where the material in the proceedings relates to agencies the IGIS oversees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Royal Commissions Amendment (Enhancing Engagement) Bill 2023

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  Date

  15 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Royal Commissions Act 1902

  to apply limitations on the use and disclosure of certain information provided by individuals to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide outside of a private session; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt this information from the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Modernisation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to: enhance the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security's (IGIS) oversight functions and powers; prevent the head or deputy head of an agency within the IGIS's jurisdiction, immediately after serving in that position, being appointed as the Inspector General; allow the IGIS to consider employment-related grievances for staff employed under the

  Office of National Intelligence Act 2018

  ; streamline reporting and information sharing procedures; and make technical amendments to clarify and modernise drafting expressions and remove redundant provisions; 14 Acts to make consequential amendments; and the

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  ,

  National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022

  and

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to: provide that 'personal work-related conduct' does not fall within the public interest disclosure (PID) scheme; amend the process for authorised officers' handling and allocation of disclosures, and principal officers' investigation of disclosures; expand the scope of protections for disclosers and availability of civil remedies for reprisal action taken against a person who has made, or may make, a PID; remove the general secrecy offence; clarify the roles of the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security in receiving and investigating complaints about the handling of a disclosure by an agency; establish a procedure for handling disclosures where there is a machinery of government change; amend the definitions of 'agencies', 'public officials' and 'principal officers'; exclude grant recipients from the application of the Act; provide for a review of the Act five years after the commencement of the amendments in the bill; and make minor amendments; and

  National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022

  ,

  National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation enacted in November 2022. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to increase the amount of the Commonwealth penalty unit from $222 to $275. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  to: amend the drafting process and relevant definitions for determinations made by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) board to authorise special ACIC operations and special ACIC investigations; and

  Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to disclose information to a non-corporate Commonwealth entity that is responsible for enforcing one or more laws of the Commonwealth;

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  to allow the Australian information Commissioner to delegate certain functions or powers; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: expand the Australian Information Commissioner's enforcement and information sharing powers; and increase penalties for serious or repeated interferences with privacy. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022, the bill amends: 25 Acts to make consequential amendments, including to confer powers on the National Anti-Corruption Commissioner that are currently conferred on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity's Integrity Commissioner; and the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to confer industry assistance powers on the National Anti-Corruption Commissioner. Also repeals the

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  and includes transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2022, the bill establishes the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate and report on serious or systemic corruption in the Commonwealth public sector, refer evidence of criminal corrupt conduct for prosecution and undertake education and prevention activities regarding corruption. Also provides for oversight of the commission by establishing a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission and an independent Inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Implements recommendations of the

  Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces

  by amending: the

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to: prohibit conduct that subjects another person to a workplace environment that is hostile on the ground of sex; introduce a positive duty on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, as far as possible; state that an object of the Act is to achieve substantive equality between men and women; and amend the definition of harassment on the ground of sex to remove the reference to conduct of a 'seriously' demeaning nature; the

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to: enable the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to monitor and assess compliance with the positive duty; provide the AHRC with a function to inquire into systemic unlawful discrimination; enable a representative body to progress a complaint on behalf of one or more affected persons from conciliation at the AHRC to application to the court; insert a cost protection provision; and amend one of the discretionary grounds on which a complaint may be terminated by the President of the AHRC; the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to require Commonwealth public sector organisations to report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency on their gender equality indicators; five Acts to clarify that victimising conduct can form the basis of a civil action for unlawful discrimination in addition to a criminal complaint; and the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum