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• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to: enable certain Kakadu and Urapunga land to be granted as Aboriginal land; and provide for the leaseback of the Kakadu land to the Director of National Parks. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Local Government and Territories 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988

  to: establish the National Capital Authority (NCA) as the accountable authority for the purposes of the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  ; empower the NCA to provide the Chief Executive of the NCA with specific directions in relation to its operations; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to remove the requirement for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to provide written notice of its intention to declare a digital radio start-up day for a licence area; and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: remove requirements that the ACMA must consult before preparing or varying a digital radio channel plan; shorten timeframes associated with the formation of eligible joint venture and digital community radio broadcasting representative companies, and clarify the invitation and acceptance process for the formation of such companies; shorten timeframes associated with issuing a foundation digital radio multiplex transmitter licence (DRMT) in accordance with a price-based allocation system and DRMAT licensees giving the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission access undertakings; and clarify how excess multiplex capacity on foundation DRMT licences is determined. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Foreign Media Ownership, Community Radio and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: establish a Register of Foreign Ownership of Media Assets to be administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); provide for new assessment criterion for the applications for, and renewals of, community radio broadcasting licences relating to material of local significance; and make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the ACMA to delegate the power to issues certain notices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Online Content Services and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to make online content service provider rules which impose gambling promotions restrictions on online content service providers; and provide the ACMA with the power to determine program standards about gambling promotional content which apply to certain broadcasters and subscriptions providers;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to: require the ACMA to monitor compliance with online content service provider rules; and enable the ACMA to delegate the power to issues certain notices; and

  Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to make a grant of financial assistance to a publisher of a newspaper, magazine or other periodical, or a content service provider; provide that the ACMA may only make a grant of financial assistance in the three financial years commencing on 1 July 2018, with the total amount of financial assistance not exceeding $50 100 000; require the ACMA to enter into an agreement with the recipient setting out the terms and conditions of the grant; enable the minister to establish an advisory committee to advise the ACMA in relation to the exercise of its powers to make grants of financial assistance; and provide for annual reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Copyright Act 1968

  to extend the operation of the safe harbour scheme to a broader range of service providers, including educational institutions, libraries, archives, key cultural institutions and organisations assisting persons with a disability. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015

  to: prohibit the posting of, or threatening to post, an intimate image without consent on a social media service, relevant electronic service or a designated internet service; establish a complaints and objections system to be administered by the eSafety Commissioner; provide the commissioner with powers to issue removal notices or remedial directions; establish a civil penalty regime to be administered by the commissioner; and enable the commissioner to seek a civil penalty order from a relevant court, issue an infringement notice, obtain an injunction or enforce an undertaking, or issue a formal warning for contraventions of the civil penalty provisions; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: provide for courts to be prescribed in regulations as having the same family law parenting jurisdiction as state and territory courts of summary jurisdiction; provide for regulations to prescribe an increased total property value under which relevant courts can hear contested family law property matters without the parties’ consent; provide that a court may give short-form reasons for decisions relating to interim parenting orders; provide family law courts with an explicit power to dismiss unmeritorious applications; provide judges the discretion to dispense with requirements to explain an order or injunction to a child where it would be in the best interests of the child; remove the 21 day time limit on the revival, variation or suspension of family law orders by state and territory courts in family violence order proceedings; provide that a breach of a family law injunction for personal protection is a criminal offence; remove self-induced intoxication as a defence against charges relating to family violence; provide that criminal responsibility does not extend to the person protected by an injunction for personal protection if their conduct results in a breach of the injunction; provide for state and territory courts to revive, vary or suspend an injunction for personal protection when hearing a proceeding for a breach of that injunction; and repeal a redundant provision that permits a court to make an order relieving a party to a marriage from an obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights; and

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (Authority Governance and Other Matters) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

  to: replace the existing full-time Chairperson of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority position with a part-time Chairperson and full-time Chief Executive Officer; establish an additional part-time member position; specify the skills required for the appointment of members; limit the number of consecutive terms able to be served by an individual member; provide for termination of members by the Governor-General for underperformance; require that any other paid work undertaken by a part-time member does not conflict with the proper performance of their duties as a member of the authority; and make a minor technical amendment; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum