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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

• Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Tax Integrity and Supporting Business Investment) Bill 2022 to reduce the tax on certain income earned by foreign resident workers participating in the Australian Agriculture Worker Program or the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from 32.5 per cent to 15 per cent, the bill amends the

  Income Tax (Seasonal Labour Mobility Program Withholding Tax) Act 2012

  to amend the title of the Act to the

  Income Tax (Labour Mobility Program Withholding Tax) Act 2012

  . 

  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

• Regulator Performance Omnibus Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Updates and repeals outdated administrative provisions across Commonwealth legislation, including by amending the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: streamline the indexation of certain thresholds and amounts; and make administrative amendments;

  Defence Act 1903

  to enable the minister to delegate certain powers in relation to the Woomera Prohibited Area;

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011

  and

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to streamline interactions for entities regulated by the National VET Regulator and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency;

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Transitional Provisions) Act 2011

  to make transitional provisions;

  Industrial Chemicals Act 2019

  to: correct an error; and enable the executive director to delegate power or functions;

  National Health Act 1953

  to streamline the process for approving a pharmacist to supply pharmaceutical benefits under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme;

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to clarify certain timeframes; Australian Jobs Act 2013 to enable the Australian Industry Participation Authority to suspend or cancel an approved Australian Industry Participation Plan;

  Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010

  to enable an issuing authority to revoke and reissue a building energy efficiency certificate when the certificate has been found to contain an error;

  Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012

  in relation to: administration by the Greenhouse and Energy Minister Standards (GEMS) Regulator; compliance with requirements by suppliers of customised products; and defining classes of products in a GEMS determination;

  Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987

  to: clarify that the International Olympic Committee and the Australian Olympic Committee can register their own insignia as trade marks; and provide for the rejection of applications to register trade marks not applied for by these bodies;

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  in relation to: alignment of grace periods for renewal of a trade mark; revocation and restoration of registration of a trade mark; and replacement of the Official Journal of Trade Marks;

  Patents Act 1990

  to remove spent transitional and savings provisions;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to: remove certain powers of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); and require the minister to have regard to certain expertise when nominating a person for appointment to the ACMA; and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: remove certain requirements in relation to spectrum plans and frequency band plans, apparatus licences, variations and revocations of class licences and advisory guidelines; and provide for personal information to be excluded from public inspection and subject to confidentiality in circumstances that the ACMA considers appropriate. Also repeals the

  Cockatoo and Schnapper Islands Act 1949

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Cyclone and Flood Damage Reinsurance Pool) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Terrorism Insurance Act 2003

  to: establish a framework for a cyclone and cyclone-related flood damage reinsurance pool by extending the operation of the terrorism reinsurance scheme administered by the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation (ARPC); and amend the title of the Act to the

  Terrorism and Cyclone Insurance Act 2003

  ; and

  Insurance Act 1973

  to create a civil penalty for insurers who do not reinsure eligible cyclone risks with the ARPC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Tax Integrity and Supporting Business Investment) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022, the bill amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to direct an entity to complete an approved record-keeping course as an alternative to financial penalties where the commissioner reasonably believes the entity has failed to comply with its tax-related record-keeping obligations;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide income tax and withholding tax exemptions for the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and its wholly owned subsidiary established for the purpose of delivering the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: provide the choice to self assess the effective life of certain intangible depreciating assets rather than using the statutory effective life in working out the decline in value; and provide an income tax exemption for certain recovery grants made to small businesses and primary producers impacted by Cyclone Seroja in April 2021;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: amend the existing unfair contract terms provisions; introduce a civil penalty regime prohibiting the use and reliance on unfair contract terms in standard form contracts; and expand the class of contracts covered by the unfair contract terms provisions; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and three other taxation Acts to reduce the tax on certain income earned by foreign resident workers participating in the Australian Agriculture Worker Program or the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from 32.5 per cent to 15 per cent. Also makes minor and technical amendments to 12 Acts administered in the Treasury, Social Services and Veterans' Affairs portfolios. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2021-2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2021-2022

  and

  Appropriation (Coronavirus Response) Act (No. 1) 2021-2022

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum