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• Border Protection Legislation Amendment Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Border Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  in relation to: monitoring and enforcement of security requirements at Australian borders; provision of certain information to Customs in relation to: people working in restricted areas or issued with security identification cards; and goods in-transit; examination and seizure of in-transit goods; electronic reporting of all mail cargo as part of a cargo report; access to airline computer reservation systems; authorisation of Customs officers; issue and use of firearms and personal defence equipment by Customs officers; powers of arrest in relation to assault or obstruction of Customs officers; and forfeiture of undeclared dutiable goods found in unaccompanied baggage;

  Customs Act 1901

  ,

  Migration Act 1958

  ,

  Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act 2001

  and

  Evidence Act 1995

  in relation to electronic reports to Customs and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in relation to passengers and crew;

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to allow the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to disclose vessel monitoring information to Customs; and

  Customs Administration Act 1985

  to include the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence as a Commonwealth agency. Also includes savings provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bounty (Ships) Amendment Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science and Resources portfolio 

  Summary

  Act No. 14 of 1999 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Brisbane Airport Curfew and Demand Management Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: imposes a curfew and certain related restrictions on aircraft movements at Brisbane Airport; provides for the development of a long term operating plan that deals with the management of aircraft movements and airspace at Brisbane Airport; and provides for consultation procedures. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Airports Act 1996

  and

  National Emergency Declaration Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Brisbane Airport Curfew and Demand Management Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATSON-BROWN, Elizabeth, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: imposes a curfew and certain related restrictions on aircraft movements at Brisbane Airport; provides for the development of a long term operating plan for managing aircraft movements and airspace at Brisbane Airport; and provides for consultation procedures in certain circumstances. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Airports Act 1996

  and

  National Emergency Declaration Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Britt Lapthorne Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  The bill: requires the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to identify and contact a person’s next of kin when that person is in a foreign country and believed to be missing; provides for the department and its agencies to offer assistance in such circumstances; and requires the minister to report annually on the development and implementation of international agreements relating to Australian citizens believed to be missing overseas. 

  Bill

• Broadcasting and Other Legislation Amendment (Deregulation) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: remove certain requirements that related to the initial planning of services in the broadcasting services bands spectrum; remove the requirement for reports made by certain subscription television licensees and channel providers under the New Eligible Drama Expenditure Scheme to be independently audited; remove the requirement for codes of practice to be periodically reviewed; remove the requirement for certain licensees to provide an annual list of their directors; clarify the calculation of media diversity points in overlapping licence areas; provide for grandfathering arrangements for certain broadcasting licensees; and make technical amendments for references to legislative instruments;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to remove redundant licensing and planning provisions that regulated the digital switchover and restack processes; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  ,

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  and

  Datacasting Charge (Imposition) Act 1998

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: reduce the expenditure required by subscription television broadcasting licensees on new eligible drama expenditure from 10 per cent to 5 per cent; provide for subscription television captioning rules to be made by legislative instrument; remove the requirement that all frequency channels allotted or reserved in a digital radio channel plan be within the same frequency band; provide that a regional commercial radio broadcasting licensee does not breach a licence condition if it is only as a result of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) making a new licence area population determination; and extend the timeframe for the ACMA to make grants under the Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund beyond 30 June 2021. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to provide that a notice to amend the anti-siphoning list does not come into effect until the expiration of six sitting days of each House of Parliament after the notice is tabled in that House; and Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2004 to remove the expiry date from the current anti-siphoning list. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017, the bill amends: the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: abolish the ‘75% audience reach rule’, which prohibits commercial television broadcasting licensees from controlling licences whose combined licence area populations exceed 75 per cent of the Australian population; abolish the ‘2 out of 3 cross-media control rule’, which prohibits control over more than two out of three regulated media platforms in any one commercial radio licence area; provide additional local programming obligations for regional commercial television broadcasting licensees; and require the Australian Communications and Media Authority to undertake a review by 1 July 2021; the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2010 to amend measures relating to the anti-siphoning scheme and the anti-siphoning notice, including extending the automatic delisting period and removing the multi-channelling rule; and five Acts to provide for collection and assessment arrangements for the new transmitter licence tax. Also establishes a transitional support payment scheme for certain commercial broadcasters; and repeals the Broadcasting Services (Datacasting Charge) Regulations 2001,

  Datacasting Charge (Imposition) Act 1998

  ,

  Datacasting Transmitter Licence Fees Act 2006

  ,

  Radio Licence Fees Act 1964

  and

  Television Licence Fees Act 1964

  to abolish broadcasting licence fees, datacasting charges and apparatus licence fees paid by commercial broadcasters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum