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• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Transparency Measures—Real Time Disclosure) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  FARRELL, Sen Don 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to require political parties and their associated entities, candidates, and Senate groups to provide a disclosure return to the Australian Electoral Commission of all political donations and gift received at or above the disclosure threshold of $14 000 within seven days of receiving the donation or gift. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill: provides for the appointment, functions and powers of the registrar; and sets the framework for protecting and disclosing information held by the registrar. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Consumer Law—Country of Origin Representations) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to enable regulations to prescribe processes which will be deemed to satisfy the definition of 'substantially transformed' for the purposes of the country of origin provisions. 

  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

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to require the minister to make an information standard for goods containing palm oil and ensure that the information standard is in force at all times. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Constitution Alteration (Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Press) 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  GRIFF, Sen Stirling
  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Subject to approval in accordance with section 128 of the Constitution, the bill proposes an alteration to the Constitution to provide that the Commonwealth, States and Territories must not limit freedom of expression, including freedom of the press and other media. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Constitution Alteration (Water Resources) 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Subject to approval in accordance with section 128 of the Constitution, the bill proposes an alteration to the Constitution to: provide the Commonwealth with the power to make laws in relation to the use and management of water resources that extend beyond the limits of a state; and ensure that any Commonwealth law relating to water resources does not have an overall detrimental effect on the environment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Support and Recovery (No-one Left Behind) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  The bill: creates the Coronavirus Economic Support and Recovery Fund to invest in the arts and entertainment, manufacturing, and the renewable energy and electricity transmission sectors; amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to expand eligibility for the COVID-19 supplement to recipients of the disability support payment and carer payment;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to expand eligibility of the JobSeeker payment to Australian resident temporary visa holders; and

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to establish rules for the JobKeeper scheme to: extend potential eligibility for the scheme to all casual employees, regardless of their period of employment, temporary visa holders, and intermittent workers with a demonstrated income history; include certain entities owned by overseas governments as eligible employers, and higher education providers as eligible employers; and enable prompt back payment of newly eligible employees and employers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill amends the

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to allow the registrar to collect fees related to the performance of registry functions or the exercise of a registry power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: amend the offence of bribery of a foreign public official to extend the definition of foreign public official to include a candidate for office, remove the requirement that the foreign official must be influenced in the exercise of the official's duties, replace the requirement that a benefit and business advantage must be 'not legitimately due' with the concept of 'improperly influencing' a foreign public official, and extend the offence to cover bribery to obtain a personal advantage; and create a new offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; the

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  to implement a Commonwealth Deferred Prosecution Agreement scheme to enable the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to invite a person that has engaged in serious corporate crime to negotiate an agreement to comply with a range of specified conditions; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum