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• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2017-2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2017-2018

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2017-2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2017-2018

  . Also repeals 15 Appropriation Acts from the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 financial years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Commitments for Australian Citizenship and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  in relation to: strengthened citizenship requirements, including in relation to permanent residency and English language proficiency; the definition of ‘spouse’ and ‘de facto partner’; citizenship by adoption; automatic acquisition of citizenship; citizenship by conferral; residence requirements for citizenship; good character requirements; the bar on approval of citizenship where there are related criminal offences; offence provisions; mandatory and discretionary cancellation of approval of citizenship; ministerial discretion to delay the making of the pledge of allegiance; the maximum period of deferral for making the pledge of allegiance; revocation of citizenship by descent, conferral or under intercountry adoption arrangements; ministerial power to make legislative instruments; use and disclosure of personal information; and consequential amendments; and

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable the use and disclosure of personal citizenship information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  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

• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to: enable certain Kakadu and Urapunga land to be granted as Aboriginal land; and provide for the leaseback of the Kakadu land to the Director of National Parks. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Local Government and Territories 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988

  to: establish the National Capital Authority (NCA) as the accountable authority for the purposes of the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  ; empower the NCA to provide the Chief Executive of the NCA with specific directions in relation to its operations; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Operational Efficiency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Products (Collection of Levy) Act 1994

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  to simplify reporting requirements for annual returns;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: enable the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to manage errors in an application at the preliminary assessment stage, grant part of a variation application, and vary a label approval where that approval is suspended; enable the APVMA and Food Standards Australia New Zealand to agree on appropriate timeframes for notifications about variations to the Maximum Residue Limits Standard; and clarify that the ‘expiry date’ is the date after which a chemical product must not be used; and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: establish civil pecuniary penalties for providing false or misleading information; and make minor and technical amendments, including the removal of redundant provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Fair and Balanced) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to expand the existing statutory duty of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Board by including the requirement to be ‘fair’ and ‘balanced’ in relation to the gathering and presentation of news and information by the ABC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications 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; provide that the ABC Board must 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

• ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 5) Bill 2017, the bill amends the

  ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017

  to add benchmark administrator licensees to the list of entities from which the Australian Securities and Investments Commission may recover its regulatory costs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum