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• Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s

  Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces

  by establishing the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service as an independent statutory agency to provide human resources and certain other services for parliamentarians and persons employed under the

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  . Also establishes the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Advisory Board and the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Consultative Committee. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Australia’s Engagement in the Pacific) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  International Development and the Pacific 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to extend eligibility for certain supports and benefits to Pacific Engagement Visa holders and eligible Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme workers and their families. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  in relation to the communication of foreign intelligence information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: expand eligibility for places in demand driven higher education courses to First Nations students; and remove the current requirement that students must pass 50 per cent of the units they study to remain eligible for a Commonwealth supported place and FEE-HELP assistance and instead require higher education providers to support students to successfully complete the units of study in which they are enrolled. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: ensure that certain provisions which provide legislative authority for expenditure on employment programs operate as intended; and make other minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to: enable content providers to use accredited classifiers to self-classify film and computer game content; extend the powers of the Classification Board to quality assure industry self-classification decisions, including revocation of those decisions as necessary; enable the Classification Board to publish a list of approved words and phrases to use in consumer advice, along with guidance on their appropriate use; expand classification exemptions to include films in languages other than English distributed through public libraries; broaden the application of conditional cultural exemptions for classifiable content to include routine exhibitions at approved cultural institutions; and enable certain content that has already been classified under the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to be deemed as classified for distribution on other platforms, where no substantial changes have been made to the classifiable content; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: extend the foreign bribery offence to include the bribery of candidates for public office and bribery conducted to obtain a personal advantage; remove the requirement that a benefit or business advantage be ‘not legitimately due’ and replace it with the concept of ‘improperly influencing’ a foreign public official; remove the requirement that the foreign public official be influenced in the exercise of their official duties; clarify that the foreign bribery offence does not require the prosecution to prove that the accused had a specific business, or business or personal advantage, in mind, and that the business, or business or personal advantage, can be obtained for someone else; and create an offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to preserve the existing rule which prohibits a person from claiming as a deduction for a loss or outgoing a bribe to a foreign public official. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Gives effect to Australia’s obligations arising out of the 2009 and 2013 amendments to the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972 by amending the

  Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981

  to: enable a permit to be granted for the export of carbon dioxide streams from carbon dioxide capture processes for the purpose of sequestration into a sub-seabed geological formation; enable a permit to be granted for the placement of wastes or other matter for a marine geoengineering activity for the purpose of scientific research; and make minor consequential and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Regulator Performance) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987

  to: clarify that only the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are permitted to register Olympic insignia as trade marks in Australia; and provide for the rejection of trade mark applications not made by the AOC or IOC;

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to: align grace periods for payment of a fee for renewal of a trade mark registration to a consistent 6 month duration, whether registration of a trade mark application is delayed or not; clarify provisions dealing with the revocation of the registration of a trade mark where a component of a notice of opposition to registration of that trade mark has been overlooked; permit restoration of a trade mark to the Register of Trade Marks if an extension of time is obtained to file evidence in support of an opposition to the trade mark removal; and remove references to the Official Journal of Trade Marks; and

  Patents Act 1990

  to remove spent transitional and savings provisions that have had no effect from February 2022. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to: establish criminal offences and associated civil penalty provisions for a person who unduly influences, pressures or coerces a non-citizen to breach a work-related condition of their visa or accept an exploitative work arrangement to meet a work-related condition of their visa; enable the minister to prohibit certain employers from employing any additional non-citizens and introduce associated offence and civil penalty provisions; require the minister to publish certain information about a prohibited employer; increase and align the maximum criminal and civil penalties for current and proposed work-related and employer-sponsored related breaches; trigger the enforceable undertaking provisions in the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; provide for enforceable compliance notices where an officer suspects a contravention of a work or sponsorship-related offence or related provision; remove the criminal offence of breaching a work-related visa condition and insert an avoidance of doubt clause for remaining work-related offence provisions; and enable the

  Migration Regulations 1994

  to prescribe matters the minister may, must or must not take into account when considering the exercise of the power to cancel visas on certain grounds. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum