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Date: 31 Jul 2019
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before House of Representatives
Portfolio: Foreign Affairs and Trade
Summary: Amends the
Australian Passports Act 2005
to enable the minister to make Australian travel document data available for the purposes of, and by the automated means intrinsic to, the identity-matching services to which the Commonwealth, states and territories agreed in the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services, agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017.

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.

Date: 13 May 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Home Affairs
Summary: Implements the government's response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security into ASIO's questioning and detention powers by amending the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979
in relation to compulsory questioning powers and tracking devices. Also amends four Acts to make consequential amendments; and makes amendments contingent on the commencement of the
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2020
.

Date: 14 May 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: RICE, Sen Janet
Summary: Amends the
Australian Sports Commission Act 1989
to provide for the Australian Sports Commission to fund applications that were submitted to the Community Sports Infrastructure Grants program and recommended to the Minister for Sports for funding, but subsequently not funded under the program.

Date: 03 Sep 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Foreign Affairs and Trade
Summary: Consequential on the Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Bill 2020, the bill amends the
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
to provide that decisions made under the
Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020
are not subject to judicial review; and
Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975
to authorise the disclosure of protected information.

Date: 03 Sep 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Foreign Affairs and Trade
Summary: Introduced with the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020, the bill establishes a legislative scheme for Commonwealth engagement with arrangements between State or Territory governments and foreign governments, and their associated entities.

Date: 13 May 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development
Summary: Amends the:
Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Act 1959
(CACL Act) to: reflect the increase to the domestic liability cap for death or injury to passengers to $925 000 as effected by the Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Regulations 2019; provide for the secretary to make regulations about permitted exclusions of liability in relation to the scope of mandatory insurance that airlines must obtain; and provide that servants and agents of a carrier can avail themselves of the same conditions of liability in addition to the limits of liability applicable to air carriers; and
Air Accidents (Commonwealth Government Liability) Act 1963
to provide that increases to the liability caps under Part IV of the CACL Act are incorporated regardless of whether implemented by amendments to the CACL Act or via regulation.

Date: 27 Feb 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
Summary: Amends the
Banking Act 1959
to: provide that the conversion and write-off provisions do not extend to the bail-in of deposit accounts; and provide that nothing in the Act or other Commonwealth legislation gives the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority the power to implement, authorise or direct the implementation of bail-in of deposit accounts.

Date: 07 Oct 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
Summary: Introduced with the Territories Legislation Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the
Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Act 1997
to extend the application of the Act to Norfolk Island.

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.

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17 December 20	Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020

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