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• Native Title Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Native Title Act 1993

  to: allow a native title claim or compensation group to impose conditions on the authority of its authorised applicant and require public notification of any such conditions; clarify the duties of the applicant to the claim group; allow the applicant to act by majority as the default position; allow the composition of the applicant to be changed without further authorisation in certain circumstances; allow the claim group to put in place succession-planning arrangements for individual members of the applicant; allow body corporate Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) to cover areas where native title has been extinguished; remove the requirement for the Native Title Registrar to notify an area ILUA unless satisfied it meets the ILUA requirements; allow minor amendments to be made to an ILUA without a new registration process; clarify that the removal of an ILUA from the register does not invalidate future acts subject to that ILUA; extend the circumstances in which historical extinguishment can be disregarded to areas of national, state or territory parks, and certain pastoral leases; allow a registered native title body corporate to bring a compensation application over an area where native title has been extinguished; require the registrar to create and maintain a public record of section 31 agreements; and make a number of technical amendments; and

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  (CATSI Act) to: require registered native title bodies corporate (RNTBC) constitutions to include dispute resolution pathways for persons who are or who claim to be common law holders, and provide for all the common law holders to be directly or indirectly represented in the RNTBC; limit the grounds for cancelling the membership of a member of a RNTBC to certain grounds; remove the discretion of directors of RNTBCs to refuse certain membership applications; clarify that the registrar may place a RNTBC under special administration in certain circumstances; and ensure that proceedings in respect of a civil matter arising under the Act that relate to a RNTBC are to be instituted and determined exclusively in the Federal Court, unless transferred to another court with jurisdiction; confirm the validity of certain section 31 agreements; and provide that a person would be entitled to compensation if the bill effects the acquisition of property of a person other than on just terms (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Navigation Amendment (Employment of Seafarers) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Transport and Regional Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Navigation Amendment (Employment of Seafarers) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Workplace Relations, Small Business and Waterfront Reform portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• New International Tax Arrangements (Managed Funds and Other Measures) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to modify the capital gains/loss tax treatment of foreign residents with interests in Australian managed funds;

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to amend the rules for determining the source of income derived by certain residents of treaty partner countries;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Financial Corporations (Transfer of Assets and Liabilities) Act 1993

  in relation to the imposition of interest withholding tax. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• New Skilled Regional Visas (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs 

  Summary

  Consequential on the

  Migration Amendment (New Skilled Regional Visas) Regulation 2019

  , which created two provisional skilled regional visas, the bill amends seven Acts to provide that holders of these provisional skilled regional visas will have the same access to welfare payments and government services as permanent visa holders where eligible. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• News Media (Self-regulation) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of six bills in relation to the media sector, the bill amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to provide that a news media organisation must be a member of the news media self-regulation body to qualify for the journalism exemption which relates to the obtaining, keeping and disclosing of personal information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• News Media (Self-regulation) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Part of a package of six bills in relation to the media sector, the bill provides for: the Public Interest Media Advocate (PIMA) to declare a specified body corporate as a news media self-regulation body and specifies the conditions and requirements for making a declaration and when it takes effect; the PIMA to revoke a declaration, the conditions and requirements for a revocation and when it takes effect; and a review of the operation of the Act within three years of a declaration taking effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• No Domestic COVID Vaccine Passports Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KELLY, Craig, MP 

  Summary

  Prohibits: Commonwealth, state and territory governments and other non-government entities from issuing domestic COVID-19 vaccine passports; and discrimination on the basis of whether a person has had a COVID 19 vaccination in the provision of goods, services and facilities; and in relation to employment, education, accommodation and sport. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• No Requirement for Medical Treatment (Including Experimental Injections) Without Consent (Implementing Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KELLY, Craig, MP 

  Summary

  Ensures that Australia complies with Article 6 of the

  Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Norfolk Island Amendment Bill 1999 [2000]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Mar 1999 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Regional Services, Territories and Local Government portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum