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  • Productivity Commission Amendment (Electricity Reporting) Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    22 Mar 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    DUNIAM, Sen Jonathon 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Productivity Commission Act 1998
    to: require the Productivity Commission to prepare quarterly reports on retail electricity prices and energy sources for electricity generation; and require the minister to table these reports within 30 days after the end of the quarterly period. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Ending Native Forest Logging Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    09 Mar 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    RICE, Sen Janet 
    Summary
    The bill: repeals the
    Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002
    ; and amends the
    Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
    to: make consequential amendments; and provide for annual statements from the minister and the Threatened Species Commissioner on the impact of native forest logging. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    09 Mar 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    HANSON, Sen Pauline 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard—February 2023) Instrument 2023
    to amend the regulatory framework for medicinal cannabis by: re-scheduling medicinal cannabis, thereby allowing prescription by any medical practitioner; adopting a definition for cannabis as a regulated product that allows a higher level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); and allowing whole plant cannabis products with certain limits of THC and cannabidiol to be sold over the counter at a chemist or veterinary clinic to persons over 18 years of age. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Governor-General Amendment (Cessation of Allowances in the Public Interest) Bill 2023

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    Date
    06 Mar 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    SHOEBRIDGE, Sen David 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Governor-General Act 1974
    to cease the payment of allowances to a former Governor-General, or a spouse of a former Governor-General, where they have engaged in serious misconduct. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Criminal Code Amendment (Inciting Illegal Disruptive Activities) Bill 2023

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    Date
    08 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    ANTIC, Sen Alex 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Criminal Code Act 1995
    to introduce three new offences relating to the incitement of trespass, property damage or theft and unlawful obstruction of traffic in central business districts and other centres of significant business or cultural activity in Australia. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Electoral Legislation Amendment (Lowering the Voting Age) Bill 2023 [No. 2]

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    Date
    08 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    STEELE-JOHN, Sen Jordon 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
    and
    Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984
    to: lower the minimum voting age in Australian federal elections and referenda from 18 to 16 years; provide for 16 and 17 year olds to be included in the certified list of voters (but not to be given a penalty notice if they do not vote); and provide that an eligible voter, who is not yet on the electoral roll or enrolled at their correct address, is able to cast a provisional vote on election day. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023

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    Date
    08 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
    ANTIC, Sen Alex
    RENNICK, Sen Gerard 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Fair Work Act 2009
    to add COVID-19 vaccination status as an attribute protected from discrimination. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    08 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Women 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012
    to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    07 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Responds to the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in
    Pearson v Minister for Home Affairs
    [2022] FCAFC 203 by amending the
    Migration Act 1958
    to provide a clear basis for aggregate sentences (that is, one sentence imposed in respect of more than one offence) to be taken into account in a consistent manner for all relevant purposes under the Act and the
    Migration Regulations 1994
    . 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    07 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    MCKIM, Sen Nick 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to: require the minister to provide an offer of transfer to Australia to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; and provide that transferred persons will be placed in community detention while they pursue a durable solution, being resettlement in a third country which is a state party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Refugee Protocol. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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