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Date: 25 Aug 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: GRIFF, Sen Stirling
Summary: Amends the
Interactive Gambling Act 2001
to: prevent interactive gambling service providers from accepting payments by credit card (either directly or indirectly); create a criminal offence and civil penalty provision for a person who accepts, facilitates or promotes credit card payments for interactive gambling services; and provide for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to enforce and review the new requirements.

Date: 17 Jun 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: WATERS, Sen Larissa
Summary: Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: prohibit political donations from property developers, the tobacco industry, the banking industry, liquor and gambling businesses, pharmaceutical companies, the mining industry and representative organisations for these industries; imposes a cumulative limit on political donations from any source of $3000 per election term; and extend the definition of 'gift' to include subscription and membership fees, as well as attendance at fundraising events.

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: 12 Jun 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: GRIFF, Sen Stirling
Summary: Amends the:
Aged Care Act 1997
to require residential aged care providers to disclose their income, costs of food and medication, staff and staff training, accommodation, administration and monies paid to parent bodies in annual financial transparency reports to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner; and
Corporations Act 2001
to ensure residential aged care providers include detailed financial information in annual financial statements.

Date: 11 Jun 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: MCCARTHY, Sen Malarndirri
FARRELL, Sen Don
Summary: Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to provide for a minimum of two divisions in the Northern Territory in the House of Representatives.

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; and 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.

Date: 14 May 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: RICE, Sen Janet
Summary: Amends the
Australian Sports Commission Act 1989
to provide for the Australian Sports Commission to fund applications that were submitted to the Community Sports Infrastructure Grants program and recommended to the Minister for Sports for funding, but subsequently not funded under the program.

Date: 14 May 2020
Chamber: House of Representatives
Status: Before Senate
Portfolio: Home Affairs
Summary: Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: enable the minister to determine, by legislative instrument, prohibited things (including controlled drugs, prescription drugs not taken by the person to whom they are prescribed, mobile phones, SIM cards and internet-capable devices) in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees; enable authorised officers and assistants to search Commonwealth immigration detention facilities without a warrant; strengthen the search and seizure and screening powers of authorised officers; and enable the minister to issue binding written directions to authorised officers in relation to the exercise of their seizure powers.

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: 27 Feb 2020
Chamber: Senate
Status: Before Senate
Sponsor: ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
Summary: Amends the
Banking Act 1959
to: provide that the conversion and write-off provisions do not extend to the bail-in of deposit accounts; and provide that nothing in the Act or other Commonwealth legislation gives the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority the power to implement, authorise or direct the implementation of bail-in of deposit accounts.

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