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• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers, Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to clarify the functions of the Australian Federal Police to enable cooperation with international organisations and non-government organisations;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: clarify the custody notification obligations of investigating officials when they intend to question an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander; create separate offence regimes for ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ for the disclosure of information relating to controlled operations; remove an obsolete reference to the death penalty; amend procedural requirements relating to protections of the identity of a vulnerable witness or complainant in a criminal proceeding; authorise collection, use and disclosure of information for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating or dealing with fraud or corruption against the Commonwealth; and enable the New South Wales Enforcement Conduct Commission to use and disclose spent conviction information; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to increase the maximum applicable penalties for breach of the general dishonesty offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Protecting Minors Online) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to introduce an offence criminalising acts done using a carriage service to prepare or plan to cause harm to, procure, or engage in sexual activity with, a person under the age of 16; and

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: amend account keeping and licence fee administration arrangements for commercial broadcasters and datacasting transmitter licensees; remove duplicative requirements for licensees, publishers and controllers to notify the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) of certain changes in control of regulated media assets; provide a consistent classification arrangement for all television programs, including films; and amend two statutory publication requirements;

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to provide that NBN Co may dispose of surplus non-communications goods;

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: correct a technical error in relation to the admissibility of certain evidence in court proceedings; remove the requirement for the ACMA to consult with an advisory committee before declaring a submarine cable protection zone; and remove the ability of NBN Co to issue and keep a register of statements that it will not be installing fibre in a new real estate development;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to remove duplication in the complaints handling and information gathering functions of the ACMA;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to remove the ability of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to issue tariff filing directions to certain carriers and carriage service providers;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to amend the statutory information collection powers of the ACMA and the ACCC;

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  and

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to make technical amendments; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and three other Acts to enable the development of an industry-based scheme for the management of telephone numbering resources. Also repeals 53 Acts and removes redundant provisions in four Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011

  to: remove the obligation to obtain consent of eligible interest holders from existing area-based emissions-avoidance projects; clarify that state and territory government Crown lands ministers and Commonwealth ministers responsible for land rights legislation have consent rights for projects conducted on exclusive possession native title land that is Torrens system land or land rights land; provide for legislative rules or regulations to allow parts of a sequestration offsets project to be removed and credits surrendered for the carbon stored in that area; ensure a sequestration project’s net total liability under the scheme does not include credits issued for emissions avoidance or credits that have already been relinquished; clarify that requirements to relinquish carbon credits if carbon stores are lost apply to sequestration projects that store carbon and avoid emissions; provide for projects to transfer between methods so as to move between emissions-avoidance and sequestration; ensure that relinquishment requirements apply to projects whose crediting period extends beyond their permanence period; and allow legislative rules or regulations to provide for the removal of regulatory approval or consent conditions on declarations obtained after the end of the first reporting period for the project. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (SBS Advertising Flexibility) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to: increase the restriction of no more than five minutes per hour of advertising to 10 minutes of advertising in any hour of broadcasting on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS); and clarify SBS’s ability to earn revenue through the broadcast of programs containing product placement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Copyright Act 1968

  to: replace the exception for persons with a disability and others acting on their behalf with a fair dealing exception; replace the current statutory licences for institutions assisting persons with a print or intellectual disability with a single exception; harmonise and modernise the preservation exceptions for copyright material in libraries, archives and key cultural institutions; consolidate and simplify the statutory licences that allow educational institutions to use works and broadcasts; allow copyright material to be incorporated into educational assessments conducted online; set new standard terms of protection for published and unpublished materials and for Crown copyright in original materials; and update references to ministers and preconditions for making regulations extending or restricting the operation of the Act in relation to foreign countries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: increase the amount of the Commonwealth penalty unit from $180 to $210 from 1 July 2017; delay the first automatic Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment of the penalty unit until 1 July 2020; and provide for CPI indexation to occur on 1 July every three years thereafter. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Donation Reform and Transparency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHORTEN, Bill, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: reduce the disclosure threshold to $1000; 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; provide that public funding of election campaigning is limited to declared expenditure incurred by the eligible political party, candidate or Senate group, or the sum payable calculated on the number of first preference votes received where they have satisfied the four per cent threshold, whichever is the lesser; provide for the recovery of gifts of foreign property, anonymous gifts and undisclosed gifts; introduce new offences and penalties; and increase penalties for existing offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Exploitation of Indigenous Culture) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: prohibit the supply in trade or commerce of anything that includes an indigenous cultural expression, unless it is done in accordance with an arrangement with the relevant indigenous community and artist and the thing is made in Australia; and create an offence for the supply of anything that includes an indigenous cultural expression without an arrangement with the relevant indigenous community and artist. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: strengthen the prohibition on corporations with substantial market powers from engaging in conduct that has the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition in markets in which they directly or indirectly participate; remove provisions in relation to telecommunications-specific anti-competitive conduct and the competition notices and exemption order regime; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum