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• Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HOCKEY, Joe, MP 

  Summary

  Consequent on the Parliamentary Budget Office Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998

  to remove the requirement for the Leader of the Opposition to request the Prime Minister to refer costings of election commitments to the Departments of the Treasury and Finance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Budget Office Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HOCKEY, Joe, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes the office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer as an independent officer of the Parliament to provide advice and analysis to Parliament on the annual Commonwealth budget and any revisions of budgetary estimates or outcomes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Landholders’ Right to Refuse (Coal Seam Gas) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  The bill: provides that Australian landholders have the right to refuse the undertaking of coal seam gas mining activities by corporations on food producing land without prior written authorisation; sets out the requirements of a prior written authorisation; and provides for relief which a court may grant a land owner when prior written authorisation is not provided. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Qantas Sale Amendment (Still Call Australia Home) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Qantas Sale Act 1992

  to: require that Qantas’ principal operation centre is located in Australia; require that the majority of heavy maintenance of aircraft, flight operations and Qantas training is conducted in Australia; provide that the Qantas Board of Directors consist of at least one director with professional flight operations experience and one director with aircraft engineering experience; and provide that the minister or certain shareholder members may restrain Qantas from engaging in certain particular conduct. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Quarantine Amendment (Disallowing Permits) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  to: provide that Biosecurity Policy Determinations are disallowable legislative instruments; provide that a permit to import, introduce, or bring in an animal, plant, substance or thing is a disallowable legislative instrument; and provide that, when these instruments are presented to Parliament, the minister is required to table a risk analysis in both Houses and refer the instruments to parliamentary committees responsible for agricultural matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Mining, Petroleum and Water Resources) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WINDSOR, Tony, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: require corporations to seek Commonwealth approval when an extractive activity may have significant impact on the water quality, structural integrity or hydraulic balance of a water resource unless exempted to do so; require the minister to declare by disallowable legislative instrument that an exemption has been granted; and impose penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wild Rivers (Environmental Management) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ABBOTT, Tony, MP 

  Bill

• Constitutional Corporations (Farm Gate to Plate) Bill 2011 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  The bill: requires certain constitutional corporations (primarily grocery retailers) to display the producer price of fruit and vegetable produce; and imposes penalties for breaching the requirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Amendment (Mobile Phone Towers) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

  to require the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council to review certain radiofrequency exposure standards every five years, with the first review to be completed within six months of this bill commencing; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: require certain owners and occupiers of land to be consulted when a mobile phone tower is to be installed; require the Australian Communications and Media Authority to be satisfied that the precautionary principle is taken into account when the site of a mobile phone tower is determined; remove the exemption for low-impact facilities from state and local government planning processes; remove the exemption on the application of state and territory laws; and require carriers to prepare local telecommunications network plans each financial year, for the next five years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Horticultural Code of Conduct) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: establish a mandatory code of conduct to regulate the commercial relationships between agents/merchants and sellers of horticultural produce; and establish the Horticultural Code Management Committee to implement, monitor and develop the code. 

  Bill