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Date: 04 Feb 2021
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
Summary: Amends the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: prevent the minister from approving an action which involves the clearing of koala habitat; and remove the exemption of regional forest agreements from requirements of the Act where there is, may, or is likely to have significant impacts on koalas.

Date: 25 Feb 2021
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before Senate
Portfolio: Environment
Summary: Amends the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: establish a framework for the making, varying, revoking and application of National Environmental Standards; and establish an Environment Assurance Commissioner to undertake monitoring or auditing of the operation of bilateral agreements with states and territories and Commonwealth processes for making and enforcing approval decisions.

Date: 27 Aug 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before Senate
Portfolio: Environment
Summary: Amends the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: provide that, where an approval bilateral agreement declares that an action in a class of actions does not require approval, the action may not be referred to the minister for assessment and approval under Part 7 of the Act; enable the minister to complete an assessment and approval of an action where a bilateral agreement with a state or territory is suspended or cancelled, or an approval bilateral agreement otherwise ceases to apply to a particular action; remove the current prohibition on approval bilateral agreements applying to an action that has, will have or is likely to have a significant impact on water resources (the water trigger); allow the minister to accredit a broader range of state and territory approval processes for the purposes of approval bilateral agreements; enable the states and territories to make minor changes to environmental assessment processes without the need for the amendment of a bilateral agreement or the re-accreditation of a management arrangement or authorisation process; and make technical amendments in relation to the making and operation of bilateral agreements.

Date: 04 Aug 2021
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Assent
Portfolio: Foreign Affairs and Trade
Summary: Amends the
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Act 1991
to: enable Export Finance Australia to make equity investments, including to support infrastructure investments in the Indo-Pacific or export-linked projects in Australia; and provide Export Finance Australia with the ability to offer guarantees for overseas infrastructure transactions without also needing to provide a loan to the same transaction.

Date: 12 May 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: FARUQI, Sen Mehreen
Summary: Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: provide for 14 days paid COVID-19 leave for all workers, including part-time, casual and gig economy workers; and enable the Fair Work Commission to make COVID-19 leave orders to extend provisions in the Act to all workers, such as gig economy workers.

Date: 10 Feb 2022
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
Summary: Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to require that labour hire workers covered by certain modern awards receive at least the same rate of pay as other employees performing the same work.

Date: 17 Sep 2015
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: WATERS, Sen Larissa
Summary: Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: remove restrictions on employees’ rights to disclose the amount of, or information about, their pay or earnings; and prohibit employers from taking adverse action against employees for disclosing this information.

Date: 05 Aug 2021
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: KENEALLY, Sen Kristina
Summary: Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to ensure that parents of stillborn babies can access the same employer-paid paid parental leave that they would be entitled to regardless of whether the pregnancy ended in a stillbirth or a live birth.

Date: 16 Jun 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor
Summary: Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to enable the Fair Work Commission to deal with disputes between employers and employees regarding the eligibility of an employee to receive the JobKeeper payment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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