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• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: require registered political parties and disclosure entities to use their current registered name in authorisations for electoral communications; and allow registered political parties certain limited flexibility in how their present their names in an authorisation; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  ,

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation, while retaining current authorisation requirements in relation to specified printed materials. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to allow regulations to be made to temporarily expand the existing secure telephone voting method, currently available to sight impaired persons and Australians working in Antarctica, to coronavirus affected individuals for a limited time window. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: prohibit foreign persons and entities from authorising electoral communications and from fundraising or directly incurring electoral expenditure in a financial year equal to or more than $1000; and make technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to increase the penalty for the offence of misleading or deceiving an elector in relation to the casting of a vote. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Identification) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGRATH, Sen James 

  Summary

  Responds to recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters' reports into the conduct of the 2013, 2016 and 2019 elections by amending the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to require voters to provide an acceptable form of identification, or alternatively an attestation from another enrolled person who does have an acceptable form of identification, in order to cast an ordinary pre-poll or polling day vote in federal elections and referendums. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Workplace Reform (Set the Standard Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the

  Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces

  by amending the:

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  (MoP(S) Act) to: require a notice of termination of employment to specify the ground or grounds that are relied on for the termination; and clarify that the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  apply to staff employed or engaged under the MoP(S) Act;

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to clarify that parliamentarians are officers of the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Act; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  and

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  to clarify that staff employed or engaged under the MoP(S) Act are Commonwealth employees for the purposes of the Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment (Increased Financial Transparency) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to require the government to introduce legislation by 30 September 2022 to: include designated services provided by lawyers, conveyancers, accountants, high-value dealers, real estate agents and trust and company service providers; and establish a public register that contains information about the ultimate beneficial ownership of companies registered under the

  Corporations Act 2001

  and certain other legal persons and legal arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Ensuring Voter Choice Through Optional Preferential Voting and the Robson Rotation) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGRATH, Sen James 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: replace compulsory preferential voting with optional preferential voting for House of Representatives elections; enable voters to allocate preferences to candidates of their choosing only; provide vote saving provisions for voters who do not preference each and every candidate; provide for the position of candidates listed on House of Representatives ballots papers to be re-ordered between ballot papers (the Robson Rotation); and distribute batches of ballot papers which list each candidate in favourable positions equally. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Fight for Australia’s Coastline) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011

  to: specify thematic categories of conduct to which autonomous sanctions can be applied; clarify that autonomous sanctions regimes established under the regulations can be either country-specific or thematic; and specify decision-making processes for imposing targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on person and entities under thematic sanctions regimes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Transparent Patient Outcomes) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GRIFF, Sen Stirling 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable the minister to make rules to establish and maintain a public register of statistical information relating to surgical procedures and patient outcomes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum