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• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Audio Description) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  STEELE-JOHN, Sen Jordon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: require national broadcasters, commercial television broadcasting licensees and subscription television licensees to provide a minimum number of hours of television audio description per week; and provide for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to enforce and review the new requirement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Prevention of Exploitation of Indigenous Cultural Expressions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ministers of State (Checks for Security Purposes) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Requires the Prime Minister to direct the Director-General of Security to provide a report on matters relating to security arising from examination of the personal background and circumstances of all current and future ministers of state. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Galilee Basin (Coal Prohibition) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Prohibits the mining of thermal coal in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Integrity Commission Bill 2018 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes the Australian National Integrity Commission as an independent public sector anti-corruption commission for the Commonwealth; provides for the appointment, functions and powers of the National Integrity Commissioner and commissioners; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  ,

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Cannabis Agency Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Establishes the Australian Cannabis Agency to regulate the production and distribution of recreational cannabis in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FARUQI, Sen Mehreen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to remove ministerial discretion in relation to the approval of research grants administered by the Australian Research Council. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Restoring Penalty Rates) Bill 2018 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  CAMERON, Sen Doug 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 21 June 2017 is of no effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Discrimination Free Schools Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to remove the exemption for religious educational institutions to discriminate against students and teachers on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, marital or relationship status or pregnancy; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure that religious exemptions from anti-discrimination provisions do not extend to educational institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Multicultural Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  The bill: enshrines the principles of diversity and multiculturalism; establishes the Australian Multicultural Commission and provides for its functions, powers, constitution, operation and inquiries; and provides for annual reporting requirements for Commonwealth entities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum