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• Agriculture Legislation Repeal Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Amendment Act 1990

  ,

  National Residue Survey (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992

  ,

  Wool International Act 1993

  and

  Wool International Privatisation Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to: amend the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Charter to require the ABC to broadcast programs that contribute to a sense of regional and national identity, and inform and entertain, and reflect the geographic and cultural diversity of, the Australian community; require the ABC Board to have two members with a substantial connection to, or substantial experience in, a regional area through business, industry or community involvement; establish a Regional Advisory Council to advise the ABC Board; and require the ABC Board to report annually on a range of additional matters, including the total number of individuals employed in regional and metropolitan areas, and the journalist to support staff ratio of employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Business Growth Fund Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Establishes the Australian Business Growth Fund (ABGF) to: provide a source of 'patient capital' for small and medium enterprises; authorise investment by the Commonwealth in the ABGF; and appropriate $100 million for the purposes of the ABGF. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  to enable the minister to make Australian travel document data available for the purposes of, and by the automated means intrinsic to, the identity-matching services to which the Commonwealth, states and territories agreed in the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services, agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: amend the offence of bribery of a foreign public official to extend the definition of foreign public official to include a candidate for office, remove the requirement that the foreign official must be influenced in the exercise of the official's duties, replace the requirement that a benefit and business advantage must be 'not legitimately due' with the concept of 'improperly influencing' a foreign public official, and extend the offence to cover bribery to obtain a personal advantage; and create a new offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; the

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  to implement a Commonwealth Deferred Prosecution Agreement scheme to enable the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to invite a person that has engaged in serious corporate crime to negotiate an agreement to comply with a range of specified conditions; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduces offences for entities that make or accept cash payments of $10 000 or more. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of 'prescribed offence' for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime for registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation and make alternative orders on a range of grounds; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations where the Fair Work Commissioner has determined the test should apply; provide that the commissioner must prioritise matters that raise serious or systemic concerns in carrying out his or her functions; provide that the minister must cause an independent review of the amendments made by the bill as soon as practicable after the end of two years after the amendments commence; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: prohibit terms of a modern award or an enterprise agreement requiring or permitting contributions for the benefit of an employee to be made to any fund other than a superannuation fund, a registered worker entitlement fund or a registered charity; require any term of a modern award or enterprise agreement that names a worker entitlement fund or insurance product to provide for an employee to choose another fund or insurance product; prohibit any term of a modern award, enterprise agreement or contract of employment permitting or requiring employee contributions to an election fund for an industrial association; and prohibit any action with the intent to coerce an employer to pay amounts to a particular worker entitlement fund, superannuation fund, training fund, welfare fund or employee insurance scheme;

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: require registered organisations to have written financial management policies that have been approved by the committee of management; require registered organisations to report certain loans, grants and donations; require specific disclosure by registered organisations of the financial benefits obtained by them and persons linked to them in connection with employee insurance products, welfare fund arrangements and training fund arrangements; introduce a range of new penalties relating to compliance by registered organisations with financial management, disclosure and reporting requirements; and make minor technical amendments; and

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Identity-matching Services Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Pursuant to the objectives of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services (IGA), agreed by COAG on 5 October 2017, the bill provides for the exchange of identity information between the Commonwealth, state and territory governments by enabling the Department of Home Affairs to collect, use and disclose identification information in order to operate the technical systems that will facilitate the identity-matching services envisaged by the IGA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum