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• Marriage Amendment (Marriage Equality) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PLIBERSEK, Tanya, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: define marriage as a union of two people; clarify that ministers of religion are not bound to solemnise marriage by any other law; remove the prohibition of the recognition of same sex marriages solemnised in a foreign country; and include a regulation making power so that consequential amendments can be made to other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to establish a sponsorship framework for the sponsored family visa program to: separate sponsorship assessment from the visa application process for family sponsored visas; require the approval of persons as family sponsors before any relevant visa applications are made; impose statutory obligations on persons who are or were approved as family sponsors and provide for sanctions if those obligations are not satisfied; facilitate the sharing of personal information between parties identified in a sponsorship application; enable the refusal of a sponsorship application and the cancellation or barring of a family sponsor in certain circumstances; enable the regulations to prescribe details for, and in relation to, the operation of the sponsorship framework; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Character Cancellation Consequential Provisions) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to give full effect to the

  Migration Amendment (Character and General Visa Cancellation) Act 2014

  in relation to mandatory visa cancellation-related powers and the lawful disclosure of non-citizens’ identifying information where a non-citizen is suspected of being of character concern. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Medicare Levy Amendment (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to establish a new tax system for certain managed investment trusts, the bill amends the

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to impose the two per cent Medicare levy on trustees of attribution management investment trusts in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Cessation of Visa Labels) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Migration (Visa Evidence) Charge Act 2012

  ; and amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to remove inoperative provisions relating to the issuing of visa labels; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to amend the statutory framework in relation to the determination process for persons seeking protection on complementary protection grounds; and make technical amendments in relation to protection visas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Mandatory Reporting) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MARLES, Richard, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to require the reporting of child abuse in onshore and offshore immigration detention facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Charging for a Migration Outcome) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: establish a criminal and civil penalty regime to make it unlawful for a person to give or receive a benefit in return for a migration outcome in relation to certain skilled work visa programs; and enable visa cancellation to be considered where the visa holder has engaged in such conduct. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration and Maritime Powers Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that if an unlawful non-citizen is in the process of being removed to another country, and before they enter that country the person is returned to Australia, then that person has a lawful basis to return to Australia without a visa; ensure that when that person is returned to Australia, bars on the person making a valid visa application for certain visas will continue to apply as if they had never left Australia; make technical and consequential amendments arising out of the enactment of the

  Migration Amendment (Character and General Visa Cancellation) Act 2014

  ; clarify that a person who has previously been refused a protection visa application that was made on their behalf cannot make a further protection visa application; ensure that fast track applicants can apply to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of certain decisions; correct a referencing error in relation to maritime crew visas; and ensure that visa ceasing provisions operate as intended; and the

  Maritime Powers Act 2013

  to clarify that powers are able to be exercised in the course of passage through or above waters of another country in a manner consistent with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Navigation Act 2012

  to: ensure that the definition of ‘dangerous goods’ includes goods which are characterised in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code; and correct minor drafting errors;

  Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability) Act 1981

  and

  Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) Act 2008

  to enable regulatory action to be taken against non-compliant vessel operators; and

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to prevent heavy grade oil being carried as ballast in Antarctic waters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum