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• Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence to have general oversight of Australian defence agencies, other than the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Signals Directorate and the Defence Intelligence Organisation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Trade Controls Act 2012

  to: regulate the supply of certain military or dual-use goods and technology on the Defence and Strategic Goods List (DSGL) from Australia to certain foreign persons both within and outside of Australia; regulate the provision of services in relation to DSGL Part 1 military goods or technology to foreign persons or entities; and remove the requirement to obtain a permit for supplies of certain DSGL goods and technology and the provision of certain DSGL services to the United Kingdom or the United States. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Safeguarding Australia’s Military Secrets) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish a framework to regulate the work that certain former defence staff members (foreign work restricted individuals) can perform without a foreign work authorisation; and the training that Australian citizens and permanent residents, other than foreign restricted individuals, may provide without a foreign work authorisation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Naval Nuclear Propulsion) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

  and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to enable the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency and the Minister for the Environment and Water to perform their respective regulatory functions in relation to Australia’s acquisition and operation of conventionally-armed, nuclear powered submarines and their supporting infrastructure and facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008

  to: remove the post-separation timeframe for accessing the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme; reduce the qualifying service periods for initial access to the scheme and the minimum service periods for each subsidy tier; provide for subsidised borrowers to continue to access the scheme in circumstances where a genuine error, mistake or accident has occurred that would otherwise amount to a subsidy ceasing event; and provide a power to make and recover payments, including overpayments, which may occur in the administration of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Discipline Reform) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  to: expand the operation of the disciplinary infringement scheme to provide a means of dealing with minor breaches of military discipline; remove the subordinate summary authority and correct a number of anomalies with regard to the respective jurisdiction of discipline officers and summary authorities, and between the different types of summary authority, in relation to the type of breach of military discipline, the rank of defence members with which each can deal, and the powers and punishments available to each level of authority; establish new service offences for failure to perform duty or carry out an activity, cyber-bullying, failure to comply with removal order (in relation to material on social media that constitutes cyber-bullying) and failure to comply with requirement to notify change in circumstances (in relation to the receipt of a benefit or allowance); and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Online Safety Act 2021

  ; and

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  and

  Defence Force Discipline Appeals Act 1955

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to: streamline the process for calling out members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Reserves, including for the purposes of responding to natural disasters or emergencies; and provide ADF members, other Defence personnel and members of foreign forces with immunity from criminal or civil liability in certain cases while performing duties to support civil emergency and disaster preparedness, recovery and response;

  Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001

  to ensure that Reserve members who are subject to a Reserve Call Out Order will continue to receive the existing protections; and

  Australian Defence Force Cover Act 2015

  ,

  Australian Defence Force Superannuation Act 2015

  and

  Military Superannuation and Benefits Act 1991

  to ensure that Reserve members rendering continuous full-time service will receive the same entitlement to superannuation and related benefits regardless of whether it was voluntary or not. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008

  to extend the period after a member leaves the Australian Defence Force (ADF) within which they can access the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme, from two to five years;

  Australian Defence Force Superannuation Act 2015

  to enable former ADF members, who have provided at least 12 months of service, to continue to make contributions to their ADF Super accounts; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to require ADF Super to obtain relevant insurance products for ADF Super members who are no longer serving in the ADF. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  to: make changes in relation to the selection, remuneration and termination of members of the Judge Advocates' Panel (JAP); make changes in relation to the selection and termination of the Chief Judge Advocate; establish and provide for the selection and remuneration of the position of Deputy Chief Judge Advocate; make minor amendments in relation to the statutory offices of Registrar of Military Justice and Director of Military Prosecutions; and make other minor technical amendments; and

  Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001

  to: move the complaint, investigation and mediation scheme from regulations into the Act; make changes to the scheme, including to reduce the formality of complaint handling and investigations, vest certain powers in the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), clarify the ability to provide certain information to various parties and introduce the option of a 'compulsory conference' as an alternative dispute resolution measure; and require the CDF to prepare annually a report in relation to the administration and operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Instrument Making) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to: replace a number of inquiry-specific regulation-making powers with a consolidated provision relating to inquiries concerning the Defence Force; repeal existing regulation-making powers to prescribe affected land in which buildings and other objects hazardous to aviation can be regulated; enable the minister to declare by legislative instrument an area to be a defence aviation area in which buildings and objects can be regulated for the purposes of removing and reducing hazards to defence aviation; subject certain regulations made in relation to defence aviation areas to monitoring under the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; and allow for the establishment of infringement notice schemes in declared public areas by reference to standard provisions in the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum