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TOTAL RESULTS: 143
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12 Sep 2024
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Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
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Amends the
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to: impose obligations on digital communications platform providers in relation to the dissemination of content on a digital communications platform that contains information that is reasonably verifiable as false, misleading or deceptive, and is reasonably likely to cause or contribute to serious harm of a specified type (misinformation and disinformation); expand the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s compliance and enforcement powers in relation to misinformation and disinformation; and make consequential amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to 3 other Acts; and amends the Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to make an amendment contingent on the commencement of the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024
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12 Sep 2024
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Attorney-General
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Amends the
Criminal Code Act 1995
to: strengthen existing offences for urging force or violence and create new offences for threatening force or violence against targeted groups and members of groups; and expand the list of groups protected by the public display of prohibited hate symbols offences.
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12 Sep 2024
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill imposes charges to recover the cost of providing services that benefit groups of Guarantee of Origin scheme participants.
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12 Sep 2024
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024, the bill amends the
Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011
, National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007
and Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Guarantee of Origin scheme.
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12 Sep 2024
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Introduced with the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024 and Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill: establishes the voluntary Guarantee of Origin scheme to certify renewable electricity and products such as hydrogen; and provides for the creation of certificates that contain information about the attributes of the renewable electricity or product that they represent.
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12 Sep 2024
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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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12 Sep 2024
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Taxation Administration Act 1953
to: modify the foreign resident capital gains withholding payments regime to increase the withholding rate from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent and remove the threshold before which withholding applies; allow employers to make single touch payroll declarations for extended periods; and provide the Commissioner of Taxation with a power to retain tax refunds for a 90-day period to enable the commissioner to obtain financial institution details for the refund to be paid into; and Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to extend the time in which small or medium business taxpayers may apply to have a tax assessment amended.
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12 Sep 2024
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Education
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Establishes the Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers Special Account to make grants of financial assistance to support remuneration increases for workers in the early childhood education and care sector.
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11 Sep 2024
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Attorney-General
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Amends the
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006
to: extend the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime to additional services that are recognised by the Financial Action Task Force as posing high money laundering and terrorism financing risks; reframe and clarify the AML/CTF program and customer due diligence obligations; enable the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to require the disclosure of information and conduct examinations; and update the AML/CTF regime to reflect changing business structures, technologies and illicit financing methodologies; and make consequential amendments. Also makes consequential or contingent amendments to 10 other Acts; and repeals the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988
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11 Sep 2024
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Education
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Amends the:
Ombudsman Act 1976
to establish the National Student Ombudsman as a new statutory function of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to deal with complaints about, and conduct investigations into, actions of higher education providers. Also makes consequential amendments to the Ombudsman Act 1976
and 3 other Acts.
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