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  • Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, the bill amends the
    Australian Passports Act 2005
    to enable automated disclosures of personal information to a specified person via the Document Verification Service or the Face Verification Service. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, the bill provides a framework to support the operation of identity verification services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to: prohibit the use of credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency as payment methods for interactive wagering services; expand the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s compliance and enforcement powers; and make consequential amendments and remove spent provisions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health and Aged Care 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023, the bill: repeals the
    Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992
    and
    Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011
    ; and makes consequential amendments to 6 Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health and Aged Care 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill consolidates the existing tobacco control framework and introduces new measures to regulate the advertising and presentation of tobacco and e-cigarette (vaping) products. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    07 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Royal Commissions Act 1902
    to enable the authorisation of an Assistant Commissioner to hold private sessions for royal commissions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    07 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Statutory Declarations Act 1959
    to: establish a framework for the execution of Commonwealth statutory declarations which includes traditional paper-based, electronic and digitally verified execution; provide for a review of the operation of the Act; and make minor and technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    06 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Social Security Act 1991
    to: amend the qualification criteria for the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment; and make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • 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

  • Date
    04 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment and Workplace Relations 
    Summary
    This bill is the result of the Senate dividing the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (original bill) into two bills. On 7 December 2023 the House of Representatives accepted the Senate’s action in dividing the bill. This page shows the procedural history of the original bill up to the time it was divided, and the title and description of the bill as divided by the Senate (see sheet PU108 of amendments to the original bill). For copies of the explanatory memoranda and amendments circulated to the original bill, see the homepage of the original bill. This bill amends the:
    Fair Work Act 2009
    in relation to: casual employment; enabling multiple franchisees to access the single-enterprise stream; transitioning from multi-enterprise agreements; model terms; intractable bargaining workplace determinations; workplace delegates’ rights; sham contracting; exemptions to waive entry requirements for suspected underpayment and increasing maximum penalties for underpayments; compliance notices; 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; and
    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; and
    Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992
    in relation to the appointment of certain directors to the Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Corporation. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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