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• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Candidate Eligibility) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Responds to a recommendation of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report on the conduct of the 2019 federal election and matters related thereto

  by amending the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to streamline the candidate qualification checklist relating to eligibility under section 44 of the Constitution and clarify when a response to a question is mandatory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Counting, Scrutiny and Operational Efficiencies) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: insert a vote-saving provision for postal votes that are not received inside a sealed envelope bearing a postal vote certificate; enable postal voters outside Australia to complete certain procedural steps electronically if they are unable to comply with authorised witness requirements; amend how records of paper-based postal vote applications are managed; remove the requirements for pre-poll declaration envelopes to carry a distinguishing number; provide for a fixed pre-poll period commencing no earlier than 12 days before polling day; enable the early opening and sorting of pre-poll ballot papers, and the early extraction of declaration votes; allow ‘spoilt’ or ‘discarded’ ballot papers to be bundled; increase the number of scrutineers permitted to observe the computerised scrutiny of Senate elections; and remove the requirement for the authorisation of printed electoral material to include details of the printer. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Offences and Preventing Multiple Voting) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: enable the Electoral Commissioner to declare an elector to be a ‘designated elector’ on the basis of a reasonable suspicion that the elector has voted more than once in an election; provide for decisions regarding declarations of designated electors to be subject to review by the Electoral Commissioner or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and provide examples of the types of conduct and behaviours that may constitute the offence of interference with political liberty, and increase the penalty for this offence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Party Registration Integrity) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: increase the minimum membership requirements for non-parliamentary parties from 500 to 1500 unique members; and require the Electoral Commission to refuse an application by a political party to register a name, abbreviation or logo that replicates a key word or words in the registered name or abbreviation of a registered policy party without consent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Political Campaigners) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to reduce from $500 000 to $100 000 the threshold for electoral expenditure that can be incurred by an individual or organisation before they are required to register as a political campaigner. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Amendment (Territory Representation) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral 1918

  to change the method for determining the number of House of Representatives members for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: clarify the interaction between federal, state and territory electoral funding and disclosure regimes following the High Court decision in

  Spence v Queensland

  [2019] HCA 15; make technical amendments in relation to entity registration and public election funding rules; and allow a senior Australian Electoral Commission staff member rather than a senior Divisional Returning Officer to be on the Redistribution Committee for the Australian Capital Territory;

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to amend various aspects of voting and scrutiny processes; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to extend the electronically assisted voting method to Australians working in Antarctica. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Emergency Response Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Emergency Response Fund Bill 2019, the bill: makes consequential amendments to six Acts to support the establishment of the Emergency Response Fund; provides for transitional arrangements; and repeals the

  Nation-building funds Act 2008

  to abolish the Education Investment Fund. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Emergency Response Fund Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Emergency Response Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019, the bill uses uncommitted funds from the Education Investment Fund to establish the Emergency Response Fund (comprised of the Emergency Response Fund Special Account and the investments of the Emergency Response Fund) as a dedicated investment vehicle to provide an additional funding source for future emergency response and natural disaster recovery. Also establishes the Home Affairs Emergency Response Fund Special Account. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: establish public registers for key non-party political actors; require non-financial particulars, such as senior staff and discretionary government benefits, to be reported; prohibit donations from foreign governments and state-owned enterprises being used to finance public debate; require wholly political actors to verify that donations over $250 come from an organisation incorporated in Australia, or with its head office or principal place of activity in Australia, or an Australian citizen or Commonwealth elector; prohibit other regulated political actors from using donations from foreign sources to fund reportable political expenditure; limit public election funding to demonstrated electoral spending; amend the enforcement and compliance regime for political finance regulation; and enable the Electoral Commissioner to prescribe certain matters by legislative instrument; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum