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29 May 2024
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House of Representatives
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Australia) Bill 2024, the bill provides for transitional provisions and amends the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
and 8 other Acts to support the establishment of Environment Protection Australia (EPA) and the Head of Environment Information Australia. Also amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: confer compliance powers on the EPA; introduce protection orders and audit powers; and provide for the minister and secretary to delegate powers to the Chief Executive Officer of the EPA.
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29 May 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Introduced with the Nature Positive (Environment Information Australia) Bill 2024 and Nature Positive (Environment Law Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill establishes Environment Protection Australia as a statutory Commonwealth entity to undertake regulatory and implementation functions under a range of environmental Commonwealth laws.
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07 Feb 2023
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Senate
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Before Senate
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NAMPIJINPA PRICE, Sen Jacinta
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Reinstates measures that previously applied under the
Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Act 2012
which were aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm to vulnerable communities in the Northern Territory.
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05 Sep 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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HANSON, Sen Pauline
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to require petroleum production licensees to enter into a domestic reserve agreement with the Commonwealth.
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04 Aug 2022
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Senate
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Before Senate
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WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to: cancel Petroleum Exploration Permit 11, and Petroleum Exploration Permit/T/49P (King Island, Tasmania); prevent any petroleum exploration leases for the Otway Basin/12 Apostles being granted; and prohibit any further petroleum exploration in the three areas.
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07 Sep 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
TYRRELL, Sen Tammy
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Amends the
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
to implement a recommendation of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide to allow a royal commission, whose terms of reference require an examination of government, to analyse and draw inferences or conclusions from evidence that is subject to parliamentary privilege.
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12 Sep 2024
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Privacy Act 1988
and 7 other Acts to introduce a range of measures to protect the privacy of individuals with respect to their personal information, including expanding the Information Commissioner’s powers, facilitating information sharing in emergency situations or following eligible data breaches, requiring the development of a Children’s Online Privacy Code, providing protections for overseas disclosures of personal information, introducing new civil penalties, and increasing transparency about automated decisions which use personal information; Privacy Act 1988
to introduce a statutory tort to provide redress for serious invasions of privacy; and Criminal Code Act 1995 to introduce criminal offences targeting the release of personal data using a carriage service in a manner that would be menacing or harassing (known as ‘doxxing’).
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08 Aug 2023
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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COX, Sen Dorinda
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Amends the:
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
in relation to prescribing consultation requirements with traditional owners, knowledge holders and other relevant persons when preparing environment plans; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2009
in relation to: meaning of relevant person; and protection of cultural heritage; and Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2011
to make a consequential amendment.
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03 Aug 2023
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Senate
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Before Senate
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BABET, Sen Ralph
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Amends the
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
to provide that indemnities cannot be granted to manufacturers of vaccines in relation to the use of a vaccine.
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25 Mar 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP
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The bill: provides for a limit on market share for supermarket businesses, including enforced progressive divesture to 20 per cent over a 5-year period where necessary; and establishes a Commissioner for Food Retailing to administer limits on market share and promote competition and fairness principles.
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