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• Criminal Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to establish a scheme for the continuing detention of high risk terrorist offenders who are considered by a judge in civil proceedings to present an unacceptable risk to the community at the conclusion of their custodial sentence; and the proposed

  Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2016

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Political Donations and Other Measures) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: reduce the disclosure threshold to $1000; require certain persons making gifts at or above the threshold to furnish a return within eight weeks after polling day; ensure that for the purposes of the disclosure threshold and the disclosure of gifts, related political parties are treated as one entity; prohibit the receipt of a gift of foreign property and all anonymous gifts by registered political parties, candidates and members of a Senate group; extend existing recovery powers; and introduce new offences and penalties and increase penalties for existing offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Courts Administration Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  ,

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to: designate the Federal Court of Australia (including the National Native Title Tribunal), the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia as a single administrative entity under the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  and a single statutory agency under the

  Public Service Act 1999

  ; establish shared corporate services functions for the courts; maintain the responsibility of the heads of jurisdictions in relation to the business and administrative affairs of their respective courts; provide for a chief executive officer (CEO) for each head of jurisdiction to assist with the management of administrative affairs and provide that the CEOs also hold the position of Principal Registrar; provide for the Federal Court CEO to have responsibility for managing the shared corporate services, with a requirement for consultation; and provide that the Federal Court CEO is the accountable authority for the administrative entity and the agency head for the statutory agency. Also makes consequential amendments to 16 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: enable the receipt of funds from terrorist organisations for legal assistance in certain circumstances; enable control orders to be imposed on persons from 14 years of age; impose an obligation on a person subject to a requirement to wear a tracking device to maintain the tracking device in good operational order; remove the authority of the Family Court of Australia to issue control orders and preventative detention orders (PDOs); clarify the meaning of ‘imminence’ for the purposes of obtaining a PDO; and create a new offence prohibiting conduct advocating genocide;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to establish regimes to monitor the compliance of individuals subject to a control order through search warrants, surveillance device warrants and telecommunications interception warrants;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to furnish security assessments directly to states and territories;

  Classification (Publication, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to broaden the range of conduct that may be considered as advocating the doing of a terrorist act;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify the threshold requirements for the issue of a delayed notification search warrant;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to: broaden protections for national security information in control order proceedings; enable a court to make an order that is inconsistent with regulations made under the Act if the Attorney-General has applied for the order; and enable the regulations to continue to apply to the extent they provide for ways of dealing with national security information in criminal and civil proceedings;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the disclosure of certain information; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Harming Australians) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General and Senator Xenophon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to extend the retrospective operation of the offences of murder and manslaughter of an Australian citizen or resident of Australia to crimes that occurred before 1 October 2002. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Grants Commission Amendment (GST Distribution) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WANG, Sen Zhenya 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973

  to require the Commonwealth Grants Commission, when considering the capacity of a state or territory to raise mining revenue in preparing its annual recommendation on the distribution of goods and services tax revenue, to take into account only the most recent financial year for which mining revenue data is available. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Law and Justice (Omnibus Amendments) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  in relation to: notification of applications for review; non-disclosure of certain information; the method of giving documents or things for the purposes of proceedings; tribunal members’ powers to dismiss certain applications; and the reinstatement of withdrawn applications; the

  Bankruptcy Act 1996

  in relation to: confidentiality requirements relating to statements of affairs; removal of certain requirements to notify, and lodge requests with, the Official Receiver; imposition of time limits for certain applications; and removal of an obsolete reference; the

  Evidence Act 1995

  to make a drafting change; the

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to: provide arresters with the power to use reasonable force to enter premises to execute an arrest warrant; and remove an obsolete reference; the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  in relation to: the jury empanelment process; the pre-trial process for indictable offences; and technical amendments; the

  International Arbitration Act 1974

  in relation to: enforcement of foreign arbitral awards; confidentiality provisions to arbitral proceedings; and technical amendments; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Construction Industry Amendment (Protecting Witnesses) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012

  to extend the period during which the Director of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate can apply to a nominated Administrative Appeals Tribunal presidential member for an examination notice by a further two years (until 1 June 2017). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment (Intergenerational Report) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  to: require the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) to prepare an intergenerational report for the Treasurer every five years; and enable the PBO to request a Commonwealth body to provide information that is relevant to the preparation of that report; and

  Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Country of Origin Food Labelling) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; extend country of origin labelling to all packaged and unpackaged food for retail sale; restrict the range of labelling to three kinds of claim; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum