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• Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill imposes charges to recover the cost of providing services that benefit groups of Guarantee of Origin scheme participants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011

  ,

  National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007

  and

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Guarantee of Origin scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill: establishes the voluntary Guarantee of Origin scheme to certify renewable electricity and products such as hydrogen; and provides for the creation of certificates that contain information about the attributes of the renewable electricity or product that they represent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Privacy Act 1988

  and 7 other Acts to introduce a range of measures to protect the privacy of individuals with respect to their personal information, including expanding the Information Commissioner’s powers, facilitating information sharing in emergency situations or following eligible data breaches, requiring the development of a Children’s Online Privacy Code, providing protections for overseas disclosures of personal information, introducing new civil penalties, and increasing transparency about automated decisions which use personal information;

  Privacy Act 1988

  to introduce a statutory tort to provide redress for serious invasions of privacy; and Criminal Code Act 1995 to introduce criminal offences targeting the release of personal data using a carriage service in a manner that would be menacing or harassing (known as ‘doxxing’). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2024 Tax and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: modify the foreign resident capital gains withholding payments regime to increase the withholding rate from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent and remove the threshold before which withholding applies; allow employers to make single touch payroll declarations for extended periods; and provide the Commissioner of Taxation with a power to retain tax refunds for a 90-day period to enable the commissioner to obtain financial institution details for the refund to be paid into; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the time in which small or medium business taxpayers may apply to have a tax assessment amended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Establishes the Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers Special Account to make grants of financial assistance to support remuneration increases for workers in the early childhood education and care sector. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: extend the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime to additional services that are recognised by the Financial Action Task Force as posing high money laundering and terrorism financing risks; reframe and clarify the AML/CTF program and customer due diligence obligations; enable the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to require the disclosure of information and conduct examinations; and update the AML/CTF regime to reflect changing business structures, technologies and illicit financing methodologies; and make consequential amendments. Also makes consequential or contingent amendments to 10 other Acts; and repeals the

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements the

  Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

  by amending the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to provide a free rate of customs duty for certain originating goods of the United Kingdom; specify phasing rates of customs duty for certain originating goods of the United Kingdom that will incrementally reduce to free; and provide a safeguard that would restore the customs duty rate to the rate that applied before the commencement of the protocol for certain products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to establish the National Student Ombudsman as a new statutory function of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to deal with complaints about, and conduct investigations into, actions of higher education providers. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  and 3 other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: enable the court to control and manage the conduct of property and other non-child-related proceedings, including to address family violence and ensure appropriate evidence is before the court; codify the duty of disclosure relevant to financial information; amend the arbitration regime for court-ordered or privately arranged family law arbitrations; provide a regulatory framework for Children’s Contact services; safeguard against the disclosure and adducing of evidence arising from communications made in the course of professional confidential relationships; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  and 5 other Acts to clarify various aspects of family law and support the operation of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and the Family Court of Western Australia. Also provides for a review of the amendments made by this proposed Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum