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• Export Control Amendment (Equine Live Export for Slaughter Prohibition) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee
  HINCH, Sen Derryn 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Control Act 1982

  to prohibit the export of live equines for slaughter. 

  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

• Export Control Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Streamlines and consolidates existing legislation to create a framework for regulating the export of goods, including agricultural products and food, from Australian territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015

  to: prohibit the posting of, or threatening to post, an intimate image without consent on a social media service, relevant electronic service or a designated internet service; establish a complaints and objections system to be administered by the eSafety Commissioner; provide the commissioner with powers to issue removal notices or remedial directions; establish a civil penalty regime to be administered by the commissioner; and enable the commissioner to seek a civil penalty order from a relevant court, issue an infringement notice, obtain an injunction or enforce an undertaking, or issue a formal warning for contraventions of the civil penalty provisions; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment and Infrastructure Legislation Amendment (Stop Adani) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to impose additional obligations on the minister in making decisions on approvals and conditions; and

  Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016

  to: require the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to assess whether an entity is a suitable person for the purposes of providing financial assistance for Northern Australia economic infrastructure; and provide that, in undertaking an assessment, the facility consults with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Crime Commission. Also provides for a review of certain existing approvals under the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  in relation to the Adani group. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Prohibition of Live Imports of Primates for Research) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to prohibit the import of live primates for research purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Alpine Grazing) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to deem that the minister has: received from the Victorian Government a referral of its proposal to trial cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park; and decided that the trial of alpine grazing is unacceptable. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDWIG, Sen Joe 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: enable commercial fishing activities to be declared commercial fishing activities on an interim basis or for a period of no longer than 24 months; require written submissions of declaration affected persons to be considered before making final declarations; create penalties and offences for engaging in declared commercial fishing activities; provide for an expert panel to be established to conduct an assessment of the potential environmental impacts of declared commercial fishing activities; and require the expert panel to publish its assessments and table them in Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• End Cruel Cosmetics Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989

  to prohibit the developing, manufacturing, selling, advertising or importing into Australia of cosmetics, or ingredients in cosmetics, which have been tested on live animals; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Great Barrier Reef) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: prohibit developments within and outside existing port areas along the Great Barrier Reef coastline; implement a moratorium from 20 March 2013 on approval of developments impacting on the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area until a strategic assessment is completed and deemed adequate by the World Heritage Committee; and prohibit approval of any developments that do not deliver a net benefit to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum