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Date: 27 Oct 2021
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before Senate
Portfolio: Treasury
Summary: Implements the government's response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' inquiry into litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry by amending the
Corporations Act 2001
to: establish a new kind of managed investment scheme called a class action litigation funding scheme; and introduce additional requirements for the constitutions of managed investment schemes that are class action litigation funding schemes.

Date: 25 Aug 2021
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before Senate
Portfolio: Indigenous Australians
Summary: Amends the:
Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
in relation to: review of the operation of the Act every 7 years; powers and functions of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations; membership information, including applications, member contact details and electronic communication; subsidiaries and joint ventures; size classification criteria for corporations; meeting and reporting requirements; constitutions for, and officers of, corporations; related party transactions; power to exempt corporations from employee-director requirement; the appointment of independent directors; publication requirements; storage of information requirements; alignment of the Act with the Corporations Act; finalising processes; dealing with unclaimed property; external administration and deregistration; minor technical amendments; and review of financial reports; and
Native Title Act 1993
to make minor technical amendments in relation to the Native Title Register.

Date: 11 Jun 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: WATERS, Sen Larissa
Summary: The bill: creates the Coronavirus Economic Support and Recovery Fund to invest in the arts and entertainment, manufacturing, and the renewable energy and electricity transmission sectors; and amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
to expand eligibility for the COVID-19 supplement to recipients of the disability support payment and carer payment;
Social Security Act 1991
and
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to expand eligibility of the jobseeker payment to Australian resident temporary visa holders; and
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020
to establish rules for the jobkeeper scheme to: extend potential eligibility for the scheme to all casual employees, regardless of their period of employment, temporary visa holders, and intermittent workers with a demonstrated income history; include certain entities owned by overseas governments as eligible employers, and higher education providers as eligible employers; and enable prompt back payment of newly eligible employees and employers.

Date: 21 Jun 2021
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: MCKIM, Sen Nick
Summary: Amends the
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020
to: delay businesses with an annual turnover of more than $50 million from claiming GST credits for ten years, or until they pay back the amount of Jobkeeper payment they received equal to the amount of profits made and/or executive bonuses paid during the financial year in which the entity received the payment; and require the Australian Taxation Office to publish a list of all entities with an annual turnover of more than $50 million in receipt of Jobkeeper payments and how much each entity received.

Date: 04 Jul 2019
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: PATRICK, Sen Rex
Summary: Subject to approval in accordance with section 128 of the Constitution, the bill proposes an alteration to the Constitution to: provide the Commonwealth with the power to make laws in relation to the use and management of water resources that extend beyond the limits of a state; and ensure that any Commonwealth law relating to water resources does not have an overall detrimental effect on the environment.

Date: 04 Jul 2019
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: GRIFF, Sen Stirling
PATRICK, Sen Rex
Summary: Subject to approval in accordance with section 128 of the Constitution, the bill proposes an alteration to the Constitution to provide that the Commonwealth, States and Territories must not limit freedom of expression, including freedom of the press and other media.

Date: 21 Jun 2017
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: XENOPHON, Sen Nick
Summary: Amends the
Competition and Consumer Act 2010
to require the minister to make an information standard for goods containing palm oil and ensure that the information standard is in force at all times.

Date: 12 Feb 2019
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Summary: Amends the
Competition and Consumer Act 2010
to make it an offence to supply or offer commercial goods to a consumer that include Indigenous cultural expression unless supplied by, or in accordance with a transparent arrangement with, an Indigenous artist or relevant Indigenous community.

Date: 27 Nov 2019
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: FARRELL, Sen Don
Summary: Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to require political parties and their associated entities, candidates, and Senate groups to provide a disclosure return to the Australian Electoral Commission of all political donations and gift received at or above the disclosure threshold of $14 000 within seven days of receiving the donation or gift.

Date: 27 Nov 2019
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: FARRELL, Sen Don
Summary: Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: lower the political donation disclosure threshold from $13 800 to $1000; and remove the indexation of the disclosure threshold.

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