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• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Corrective Services Authorities) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to provide state and territory corrective services authorities with the ability to access telecommunications data. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: expand the definition of unlawful interference; establish an additional purpose of safeguarding against operational interference and expanding the existing security direction power to include making directions in relation to a specific threat of operational interference; enable the minister to declare critical industry participants, with additional requirements; include additional requirements in relation to security plans and programs; provide for the use and disclosure of protected information; expand the powers of aviation and maritime security inspectors to undertake compliance activities; apply the investigation and civil penalty provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; remove timeframes in relation to the provision of certain information; and require mandatory reporting of cyber security incidents; and

  Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Modernising Business Communications) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: allow all documents to be signed or executed electronically; allow certain additional categories of documents to be sent electronically; amend the criteria with which an entity must comply before they are relieved from their obligations to provide a document to a member; and make consequential amendments; the

  Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2022

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2022

  ; the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to allow documents under the National Credit Code to be given in either physical or electronic form, or by the provision of an electronic postcard; the

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to include application, transitional and saving provisions; the

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  to remove certain requirements relating to payments; and 11 Acts to provide that notices required or permitted to be published in newspapers can now be published in a manner that results in the notice being accessible to the public and reasonably prominent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Streamlining and Improving Economic Outcomes for Australians) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: provide certain foreign financial service providers with exemptions from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services licence and from the fit and proper person test; and enable the minister to determine regulators that administer broadly comparable regulatory regimes;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to impose financial reporting and auditing requirements on registrable superannuation entities that are consistent with those that currently apply to public companies and registered schemes; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable small business entities to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for an order staying, or otherwise affecting, the operation or implementation of decisions of the Commissioner of Taxation that are being reviewed by the AAT. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2022-2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2022-2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  THORPE, Sen Lidia 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes a framework for the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the Commonwealth Government; and makes a consequential amendment to the

  Productivity Commission Act 1998

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Amendment (Strengthening Land and Governance Provisions) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Australians 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986

  to: amend the title of the Act to the

  Aboriginal Land and Waters (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986

  ; exempt certain leases granted by the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council from the application of the

  Residential Tenancies Act 1997

  (ACT); increase the payment amount at which the council is required to seek approval from the minister before entering into a contract; amend the council's governance structure and decision making powers to align more closely with other corporate Commonwealth entities; remove the requirement for the council to enter into an agreement to lease with the Director of National Parks before land in the Booderee National Park can be declared as Aboriginal land; clarify that the functions of the council relate to registered members and eligible children; and update the wording of the term 'physical or mental incapacity'; and eight Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration Detention Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Aug 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes a legal framework governing immigration detention in Australia; provides alternatives to immigration detention; and prioritises non-citizens' immediate needs and refugee and international human rights law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum