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TOTAL RESULTS: 473
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06 Dec 2017
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends: the
Family Law Act 1975
to: establish the Parenting Management Hearings Panel as an independent statutory authority to provide self-represented litigants with an alternative to the court process for resolving parenting disputes; 11 Acts to make consequential amendments; and various Acts contingent on the commencement of the proposed Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2017
, proposed Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Act 2017
and proposed Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2017
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- Date
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19 Oct 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
to: prohibit terms of a modern award or an enterprise agreement requiring or permitting contributions for the benefit of an employee to be made to any fund other than a superannuation fund, a registered worker entitlement fund or a registered charity; require any term of a modern award or enterprise agreement that names a worker entitlement fund or insurance product to provide for an employee to choose another fund or insurance product; prohibit any term of a modern award, enterprise agreement or contract of employment permitting or requiring employee contributions to an election fund for an industrial association; and prohibit any action with the intent to coerce an employer to pay amounts to a particular worker entitlement fund, superannuation fund, training fund, welfare fund or employee insurance scheme; Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: require registered organisations to adopt, and periodically review, financial management policies; require registered organisations to keep credit card records and report certain loans, grants and donations; require specific disclosure by registered organisations and employers of the financial benefits obtained by them and persons linked to them in connection with employee insurance products, welfare fund arrangements and training fund arrangements; and introduce a range of new penalties relating to compliance with financial management, disclosure and reporting requirements; and Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
, Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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11 Sep 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
- Summary
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Amends the:
Fair Work Act 2009
to: allow for minimum standards under the National Employment Standards to relate to superannuation contributions; and require employers to provide information to employees in relation to employer superannuation contributions for each pay period; Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
to: clarify that amounts contributed to a superannuation fund by an employee or Retirement Savings Account under a salary sacrifice arrangement are not employer contributions; remove the current exemption for employers not to make superannuation contributions to employees who are paid less than $450 in a calendar month; remove certain restrictions on choice of superannuation fund; and provide for a review of employers’ compliance with superannuation payment obligations by the Commissioner of Taxation; Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
to create a duty for trustees of superannuation entities to take reasonable steps to notify their members when it could reasonably have expected them to have received a contribution from an employer, but did not; and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to require additional information to be provided to the commissioner in annual member information statements.
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- Date
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11 Sep 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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WILKIE, Andrew, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: provide that the Fair Work Commission must not consider it appropriate to terminate an enterprise agreement if the terms and conditions of employment of any employee covered by the agreement would, immediately after the termination, be less favourable than the employee’s terms and conditions of employment immediately before the termination; and invalidate any decision of the commission to terminate an agreement since 22 April 2015, if the decision would not have met the new requirements.
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- Date
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17 Aug 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Part of a package of 11 bills to fund the Commonwealth’s contribution to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the bill amends the
Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Act 1998
to increase from 47 per cent to 47.5 per cent the rate of family trust distribution tax.
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17 Aug 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Part of a package of 11 bills to fund the Commonwealth’s contribution to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the bill amends the
Fringe Benefits Tax Act 1986
to increase from 47 per cent to 47.5 per cent the rate of fringe benefits tax.
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- Date
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16 Aug 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to prohibit officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds; allow applications to be made to the Federal Court for a range of other orders; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and make minor and technical amendments.
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- Date
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19 Jun 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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CHRISTENSEN, George, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: ensure that penalty rates in a modern award cannot be varied to make the penalty rate lower than that in force under the award on 30 June 2017; provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect; and ensure that penalty rates cannot be reduced in any future greenfields or non-greenfields enterprise agreement if an employee is worse off than they would have been under the award, by virtue of the fact that the employee works only or mainly on days on which penalty rates are paid.
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- Date
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29 Mar 2017
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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RHIANNON, Sen Lee
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to require employers to pay a base rate of pay, full rate of pay and any casual loading that is not less than the relevant award or national minimum wage for employees covered by an enterprise agreement.
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- Date
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21 Mar 2017
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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CAMERON, Sen Doug
DI NATALE, Sen Richard
LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: ensure 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 22 February 2017 is of no effect.
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