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21 Aug 2024
- Chamber
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Senate
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BRAGG, Sen Andrew
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Amends the
Housing Australia Future Fund Act 2023
to prohibit the Housing Australia Future Fund from investing in housing-related assets or entities financed by the Construction and Building Unions Superannuation Fund.
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30 Nov 2022
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Senate
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CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
ANTIC, Sen Alex
BABET, Sen Ralph
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The bill: clarifies that children born alive are persons; requires health practitioners to provide medical care, treatment and statistics on children born alive as a result of terminations; and provides that the mother of a child born alive is not liable to prosecution for an offence in respect of that child.
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29 Nov 2023
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THORPE, Sen Lidia
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Amends the
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
to amend the definition of ‘human rights’ to include the rights and freedoms outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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09 Mar 2023
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Senate
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HANSON, Sen Pauline
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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.
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09 Oct 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Home Affairs
- Summary
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Introduced with the Cyber Security Bill 2024 and Security of Critical Infrastructure and Other Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Response and Prevention) Bill 2024 to implement certain measures proposed by the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, the bill amends the:
Intelligence Services Act 2001
to establish a ‘limited use’ obligation that restricts how cyber security information voluntarily provided to the Australian Signals Directorate can be used and disclosed; and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to exempt cyber security information voluntarily provided to the National Cyber Security Coordinator from the operation of the Act.
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22 Jun 2023
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House of Representatives
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Intelligence Services Act 2001
to: expand the jurisdictions of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to include the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs; provide that the PJCIS may review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation, and all such expiring legislation; enable the PJCIS to request the IGIS to conduct an inquiry into certain operational activities of the agencies within the IGIS’s jurisdiction; clarify the legislation which enables the PJCIS to request a briefing from the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor; clarify the IGIS’s complaints jurisdiction; and make technical amendments; Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Office of National Intelligence Act 2018
to require the IGIS and the Office of National Intelligence to provide annual briefings to the PJCIS; Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010
to require the IGIS to provide annual briefings to the committee; Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975
to amend the review and access of ACIC criminal intelligence assessment records; and Criminal Code Act 1995
to include an exemption from civil and criminal liability for defence officials and others for certain computer-related conduct. Also makes consequential amendments to 15 Acts.
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09 Oct 2024
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HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
- Summary
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Amends the
Interactive Gambling Act 2001
to provide for a staged implementation of a prohibition on the advertising of licensed interactive wagering services.
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01 Jul 2024
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House of Representatives
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SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
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Amends the
Interactive Gambling Act 2001
to ban the broadcast, datacast and publication of licensed interactive wagering services.
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03 Jun 2024
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House of Representatives
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GEE, Andrew, MP
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Requires businesses to accept cash payments for certain transactions.
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04 Mar 2015
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WATERS, Sen Larissa
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The bill: provides that Australian landholders have the right to refuse the undertaking of gas and coal mining activities by corporations on their land without prior written authorisation; sets out the requirements of a prior written authorisation; provides for relief which a court may grant a land owner when prior written authorisation is not provided; prohibits hydraulic fracturing for coal seam gas, shale gas and tight gas by corporations; and provides for civil penalties.
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