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• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Food Labelling) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of original labelling for food; provide that the labelling is based on the ingoing weight of the ingredients and components; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Strengthening Rules About Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Law Enforcement Integrity, Vulnerable Witness Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  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: authorise Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) staff to provide AUSTRAC information to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) with appropriate protection for that information; enable AUSTRAC to conduct internal reviews of certain decisions; create an exception to an offence and extend certain offences; enable the Clean Energy Regulator and the Integrity Commission of Tasmania to access AUSTRAC data; and enable AUSTRAC to engage private sector secondees;

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to: require certain evidence to only be given in private; and enable the ACLEI to second employees of the Australian Federal Police and other unsworn police officers;

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  in relation to victims of slavery, slavery-like and human trafficking offences to: extend vulnerable witness protections to adult victims and to enable evidence to be given in retrials and subsequent trials; provide for the use of victim impact statements; and enable courts to hear evidence by video-link from witnesses outside Australia;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to remove wrist x-ray as a prescribed age determination procedure;

  Migration Act 1958

  to: ensure that the prosecution bears the onus of proof in establishing age; enable the use of evidentiary certificates in the prosecution of people smuggling offences; provide that all the time spent in immigration detention or on remand prior to sentencing is recognised in the sentencing of those convicted of people smuggling offences;

  International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997

  and

  International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

  to enable Australia to recognise the United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to enable the minister to enter into certain arrangements with either the administrator or the minister responsible for an external territory; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make a technical amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule; align the retrospective duties provisions of the anti-dumping system with the relevant World Trade Organization agreements; clarify that the minister is the decision maker for certain findings; and provide for a circumvention activity to address sales at a loss and other similar practices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Prohibition of Certain Coal Exports) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: prohibit the export of coal mined in the water catchment valleys and district of the Wyong Shire Council; and enable the minister to prohibit the export of coal mined in other areas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975

  to remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Dairy Industry (Drinking Milk) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Provides for: the registration of dairy regional representative bodies; Fair Work Australia to determine a modern award for dairy farmers (including the objective of providing a fair minimum return to dairy farmers for producing drinking milk); dairy farmers and processors to establish enterprise agreements; and collective negotiations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Early Years Quality Fund Special Account Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  School Education, Early Childhood and Youth 

  Summary

  Establishes the Early Years Quality Fund Special Account to provide $300 million over two years to approved centre based long day care services in the form of grants to be used exclusively for the remuneration of employees and other employment-related costs and expenses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Making Marine Parks Accountable) Bill 2012 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: require the minister, before the Governor-General declares an area of sea or an area of land and sea as a Commonwealth reserve, to establish an independent scientific reference panel, a stakeholder advisory group and to commission an independent assessment of social and economic impacts of any proposal, including any relevant compensation costing; require the minister to publish the reports of the scientific reference panel and the stakeholder advisory group; and provide that a Commonwealth reserve declaration be subject to disallowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Moratorium on Aquifer Drilling Connected with Coal Seam Gas Extraction) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: place a two year moratorium on aquifer drilling connected with coal seam gas extraction; and impose penalties for any contravention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum