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• Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to establish Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme fuel credits, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to reduce fuel tax to 35.688 cents per litre from 1 July 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Prohibition of Support for Whaling) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel;ABETZ, Sen Eric 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to create an offence of providing any service, support or resources to organisations engaged in whaling. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that: rolls are closed seven days after the issue of the writ for an election; provisional voters are not required to provide evidence of identity; electors can update their enrolment details electronically; the Australian Electoral Commission may process enrolment transactions outside the division for which the person is enrolling; and pre-poll votes cast in an elector’s home division can be cast and counted as ordinary votes; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to restrict the number of candidates that can be endorsed by a political party in each division. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Recreational Fishing for Mako and Porbeagle Sharks) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to provide that it is not an offence to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move longfin mako, shortfin mako and porbeagle sharks in or from Commonwealth waters when that action is taken during recreational fishing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Public Health and Safety) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HARTSUYKER, Luke, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: provide that the minister must consider public health and safety concerns when requesting further information or giving approval for a controlled action; and enable the minister to give an emergency approval in such circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase the excise duty rate applying to tobacco products by 25 per cent from 30 April 2010. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to: extend the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme to 2015-16; reduce the maximum grant to $150 000; reduce the maximum number of grants available for an individual recipient to seven; cap intellectual property registration expenses at $50 000; increase the minimum expenses threshold to $20 000; increase the income limit for members of approved joint ventures/consortia to $50 million; remove approved trading houses as an eligible special approval applicant category; reinstate disqualifying convictions; enable Austrade to impose conditions on the accreditation of EMDG consultants; and make changes in relation to applications submitted by accredited EMDG consultants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that: rolls are closed seven days after the issue of the writ for an election; and provisional voters are not required to provide evidence of identity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to provide for: specific authorisation requirements for how-to-vote cards; and penalties for contravening the requirements; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to misleading or deceptive electronic advertising publications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to: publishing enrolment and election-related forms and information about places to vote; electronic certified lists of voters; mobile polling; postal voting; eligibility for early voting; and technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  in relation to: evidence of identity for enrolment; the age of provisional enrolment; roll information provided electronically to parliamentarians; electronically copying the roll; purposes for which the roll may be used; and enrolment for people experiencing homelessness. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum