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• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Amendment (Indigenous Land Corporation) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to: give the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) functions in relation to water-related rights; require the ILC to prepare a National Indigenous Land and Sea Strategy and regional indigenous land and sea strategies; align rules for dealings in water-related rights granted by the ILC, or acquired with ILC assistance, with rules for dealings in land granted by, or acquired with, ILC assistance; and include experience in water management as a qualifying criteria for membership of the ILC Board; and

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  and

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  to rename the ILC as the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund Bill 2018, the bill amends: the

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to close the Land Account; five Acts to make consequential amendments to support the operation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund on commencement; and the proposed

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund Act 2018

  to make amendments contingent on the repeal of the

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  and enactment of the proposed

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Amendment (Indigenous Land Corporation) Act 2018

  . Also provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018, the bill provides for the establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund as a dedicated financial asset fund for the making of annual and discretionary payments to the Indigenous Land Corporation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Astronomical Observatory (Transition) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Jobs and Innovation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Astronomical Observatory Act 2010

  to: amend the short title of the Act to the

  Astronomical Functions Act 2010

  ; substitute a new outline of the Act; and abolish the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and AAO Advisory Committee. Also repeals the

  Australian Astronomical Observatory (Transitional Provisions) Act 2010

  and provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987

  to implement certain recommendations of the Independent Review of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) by: replacing the representative-based structure of the AIHW board with a skills-based board comprised of members from a range of different fields; providing for board members to be appointed by the minister rather than the Governor-General; providing for members to be appointed for terms of up to five years; specifying employment conditions and administrative arrangements in relation to the membership and operation of the board; and making transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2017-2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2017-2018

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2017-2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2017-2018

  . Also repeals 15 Appropriation Acts from the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 financial years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  to enable the minister to make Australian travel document data available for the purposes of, and by the automated means intrinsic to, the identity-matching services to which the Commonwealth, states and territories agreed in the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services, agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Operational Efficiency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Products (Collection of Levy) Act 1994

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  to simplify reporting requirements for annual returns;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: enable the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to manage errors in an application at the preliminary assessment stage, grant part of a variation application, and vary a label approval where that approval is suspended; enable the APVMA and Food Standards Australia New Zealand to agree on appropriate timeframes for notifications about variations to the Maximum Residue Limits Standard; and clarify that the ‘expiry date’ is the date after which a chemical product must not be used; and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: establish civil pecuniary penalties for providing false or misleading information; and make minor and technical amendments, including the removal of redundant provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 5) Bill 2017, the bill amends the

  ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017

  to add benchmark administrator licensees to the list of entities from which the Australian Securities and Investments Commission may recover its regulatory costs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum