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• Customs Depot Licensing Charges Amendment Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services and Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further Assistance for Older Australians) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 May 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Poker Machine Harm Reduction Tax (Administration) Bill 2008 [2010]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  The bill: provides for the administration of a poker machine harm reduction tax to be payable by a licensed operator on revenue derived from licensed poker machines; establishes the Poker Machine Harm Reduction Transition Fund Supervisory Board to determine grants to be made from the Fund for the purposes of funding community activities, rehabilitation and prevention programs, and provides for promotional educational programs highlighting the risks of gambling. 

  Bill

• Plain Tobacco Packaging (Removing Branding from Cigarette Packs) Bill 2009 [2010]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  and Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004 to ban advertising, logos or trademarks and specify the appearance requirements for cigarette packaging. 

  Bill

• Keeping Jobs from Going Offshore (Protection of Personal Information) Bill 2009 [2010]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  The bill: requires Australian organisations to meet certain requirements before transferring personal information about an individual to an organisation in a foreign country; and requires foreign call centres to identify the city and country in which they are located when contacting customers. 

  Bill

• Choice of Repairer Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  Requires motor vehicle manufacturers to provide access to information and diagnostic tools to the vehicle repair, servicing, replacement parts and accessories sectors. 

  Bill

• Anti-Terrorism Laws Reform Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: insert a new definition of ‘terrorist act’; remove the offences of ‘reckless possession of a thing’, sedition, and associating with a terrorist organisation; amend the reference to ‘fostering the doing of’ a terrorist act in the definition of ‘terrorist organisation’; provide for terrorist organisations to be prescribed in regulations; and amend the ‘supporting’ offence; Crimes Act 1914 to: remove ‘investigative dead time’ from the calculation of dead time; and remove the presumption against bail for certain offences; and

  Australian Security Information Organisation Act 1979

  in relation to the questioning and detention of terrorism suspects. Also repeals the

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Building and Construction Industry (Restoring Workplace Rights) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005

  and

  Building and Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill

• Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management (Repeal and Consequential Amendment) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005

  and makes a consequential amendment to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  . 

  Bill

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

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel;BROWN, Sen Bob 

  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