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• Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: align postal voting procedures in referendums with equivalent procedures in federal elections; enable the early opening and sorting of pre-poll ordinary votes, and the extraction of declaration votes during preliminary scrutiny; align authorisation requirements with the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  ; establish a financial disclosure and foreign donation restrictions framework for referendum campaigning; prohibit foreign donations of $100 or more for referendum campaigning, and prohibit foreign campaigners from fundraising or directly incurring referendum expenditure in a financial year equal to or more than $1,000; enable the Electoral Commissioner to make modifications to certain aspects of a referendum during a declared emergency; and make technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: extend the application of the designated elector framework to referendums; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: require mandatory reporting of adverse events involving medical devices; provide a marketing approval pathway for biologicals that are for export only; remove merits review rights for a decision by the secretary to require a person to provide information or documents under the Act; enable the secretary to extend the period for a person to pay the amount stated in an infringement notice, and require a person to provide information or documents that are relevant to a contravention of the Act; extend the period for which seized goods can be held; provide that therapeutic goods advertising is excluded from advertising restrictions for certain health professionals or to persons purchasing goods on behalf of governments, registered charities or health facilities; enable the secretary to withdraw approval for the use of a restricted representation in an advertisement about therapeutic goods; enable the secretary to approve the importation or supply of substitute overseas prescription medicine that has been previously approved within Australia; provide that the secretary is not required to observe any requirements of the natural justice hearing rule when releasing therapeutic goods information; provide that sponsors of reportable medicines that are in shortage must provide updated information to the secretary; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: include negligence as a fault element in relation to a category one offence; clarify that a work group is negotiated with workers who are proposed to form the work group; amend the obligation to train health and safety representatives to provide that representatives are entitled to choose a course of training; amend the process for the issuing and services of notices under the Act; enable an inspector, within 30 days of entering a workplace, to issue certain written notices relating to the reason for entry; specify that Comcare is able to share information with certain other persons for the purpose of performing functions under relevant laws; extend from 12 to 18 months the deadline for a person to make a request to the regulator to bring a prosecution for a category one or two offence; prohibit a person from entering into a contract of insurance to provide coverage over liability for monetary penalties imposed under the Act, and create a related offence; and

  Safe Work Australia Act 2008

  to specify that Safe Work Australia may be provided with information necessary to its data and evidence functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Energy Price Relief Plan) Bill 2022

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  Date

  15 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: establish regulation-making powers in relation to dealings between persons who supply or acquire a gas commodity, dealing with and resolving disputes or complaints between persons who supply or acquire a gas commodity, and gas market emergency price orders; enable the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to order the production of certain information and documents, investigate suspected non-compliance and utilise a range of sanctions for non-compliance; provide for civil penalty provisions of gas market instruments; and prohibit schemes designed to avoid the application of a civil penalty provision of a gas market instrument; and

  Federal Financial Relations Act 2009

  to introduce a payment to states and territories to support temporary energy bill relief for households and small businesses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Responds to the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in

  Pearson v Minister for Home Affairs

  [2022] FCAFC 203 by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a clear basis for aggregate sentences (that is, one sentence imposed in respect of more than one offence) to be taken into account in a consistent manner for all relevant purposes under the Act and the

  Migration Regulations 1994

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Women 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023, the bill establishes the Housing Australia Future Fund to make grants, and enable Housing Australia to make grants and loans, in relation to acute housing needs, social housing or affordable housing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023, the bill establishes the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council as an independent advisory body to the Commonwealth Government on matters relating to housing supply and affordability. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023, the bill amends: the

  National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018

  to rename the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation to Housing Australia; the renamed

  Housing Australia Act 2018

  to: streamline the functions of Housing Australia; establish an annual review mechanism for the National Housing Infrastructure Facility; and extend the Commonwealth guarantee of the liabilities of Housing Australia to apply to contracts entered into until 30 June 2028; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australia Council Amendment (Creative Australia) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Gives effect to certain elements of the Government's National Cultural Policy by amending the:

  Australia Council Act 2013

  to: enable the transfer of the functions of Creative Partnerships Australia Ltd to the Australia Council and provide that it may operate as either the Australia Council or Creative Australia; and clarify the constitutional basis for the Act; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to remove Creative Partnerships as a deductible gift recipient. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum