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• Fair Work Amendment (Right to Work from Home) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen Barbara 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to give employees the right to request to work from home for up to 2 days per week. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Reproductive Health Leave and Flexible Work Arrangements) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to enable employees to access 12 days of paid reproduction health leave in a 12 month period and to request flexible working arrangements when experiencing symptoms of perimenopause and menopause; and

  Workplace Gender Equality (Matters in relation to Gender Equality Indicators) Instrument 2023

  to enable the collection of certain data. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Removing Criminals from Worksites) Bill 2024 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CASH, Sen Michaelia 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: expand the circumstances in which a person may be automatically disqualified from office and make it a criminal offence for a person who is disqualified from holding office in a registered organisation to continue to hold office or act in a manner that would significantly influence the organisation; provide for a disqualification scheme that allows the Federal Court to disqualify an official from holding office in certain circumstances; expand the grounds for the cancellation of registration of organisations by the Federal Court; and enable the Federal Court to make orders instead of cancellation of registration. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Administration) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to place the Construction and General Division (and its branches) of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union into administration. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Feb 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to enable the Manufacturing Division to de-merge from the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997

  to remove certain limiting words from section 32B (which confers power on the Commonwealth to make, vary or administer an arrangement or grant) and section 39B (which confers power on the Commonwealth to form a company, participate in the formation of a company, acquire shares in a company or become a member of a company). Also makes consequential amendments to 7 Acts and contingent amendments to 2 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Immunity) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to provide a judge of Division 2 of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) with the same protection and immunity as a judge of Division 1 of the FCFCOA; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency Act 2013

  to expand the functions of the Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency in relation to silica safety and silica-related diseases. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (First Responders) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to implement presumptive liability provisions for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Small Business Redundancy Exemption) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide an exception to the operation of the small business redundancy exemption when a larger business downsizes to become a smaller business employer due to insolvency. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Protections Against Discrimination) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide workplace protections against discrimination for employees who have been, or continue to be, subjected to family and domestic violence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freeze on Rent and Rate Increases Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FARUQI, Sen Mehreen
  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Financial Relations Act 2009

  to: provide for additional designated housing agreements to include model tenancy standards; and create an instrument-making power allowing the minister to make additional payments to the states on the basis that the states agree to adopt the model tenancy standards, which would include implementing controls on rents and a ban on no-grounds eviction; and

  Reserve Bank Act 1959

  to: insert an object stating that, in relation to differences of opinion between the Reserve Bank and the Government on questions of policy, the Government is ultimately responsible for monetary and banking policy; and provide that orders made to determine monetary policy can include freezing interest rates for a specified period of time. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2023 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen Barbara 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: prevent employers from contacting employees outside of work hours; and provide that employees are not required to monitor, read or respond to work communications from their employer outside of work hours. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
  ANTIC, Sen Alex
  RENNICK, Sen Gerard 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to add COVID-19 vaccination status as an attribute protected from discrimination. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Equal Pay for Equal Work) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to require that labour hire workers covered by certain modern awards receive at least the same rate of pay as other employees performing the same work. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Environment Watchdog Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: establish the Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to exercise the routine administrative regulatory functions currently undertaken by the Commonwealth in relation to the Act and other Commonwealth legislation relating to the environment and undertake certain functions relating to communities; establish an Office of Monitoring, Compliance, Enforcement and Assurance within the EPA; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Environment and Energy; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Water Act 2007

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Improving Paid Parental Leave for Parents of Stillborn Babies) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KENEALLY, Sen Kristina 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure that parents of stillborn babies can access the same employer-paid paid parental leave that they would be entitled to regardless of whether the pregnancy ended in a stillbirth or a live birth. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Ten Days Paid Domestic and Family Violence Leave) Bill 2020 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCALLISTER, Sen Jenny 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide for ten days paid domestic and family violence leave in a 12-month period; provide for employees to access paid domestic and family violence leave at their base pay rate for usual hours of work in the period the leave was taken; enable an employee and employer to agree additional paid or unpaid leave can be taken in addition to the 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave; clarify and expand the reasons for which a person can take paid domestic and family violence leave; and strengthen the privacy obligations placed on employers in relation to an employee who takes paid family and domestic violence leave. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Franchising Laws Amendment (Fairness in Franchising) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  O'NEILL, Sen Deborah 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Franchising) Regulation 2014

  to: enable the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman to appoint a mediation and franchising adviser to assist in resolving franchising disputes where mediation has failed, or where both parties agree to arbitration; and give the ombudsman the power to assist with multi-party mediation and arbitration in franchising disputes where multiple parties have identical issues that require resolution;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to increase the civil penalties provisions for breaching the Franchising Code of Conduct; and

  Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Risk Screening Protections) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide that: family risk screening information is confidential and cannot be disclosed except in limited circumstances; family safety risk information is inadmissible in court, except in limited circumstances; and court workers (such as registrars and family counsellors) have immunity when involved in family risk screening procedures. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (One in, All in) Bill 2020 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to enable the Fair Work Commission to deal with disputes between employers and employees regarding the eligibility of an employee to receive the JobKeeper payment during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (COVID-19) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FARUQI, Sen Mehreen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide for 14 days paid COVID-19 leave for all workers, including part-time, casual and gig economy workers; and enable the Fair Work Commission to make COVID-19 leave orders to extend provisions in the Act to all workers, such as gig economy workers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law (Self-Assessment) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Requires separating couples to self-assess and narrow their family law disputes promptly within a defined statutory time frame. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Restoring Penalty Rates) Bill 2018 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CAMERON, Sen Doug 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 21 June 2017 is of no effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• A Fair Go for Australians in Trade Bill 2018 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CARR, Sen Kim 

  Summary

  The bill: prohibits the Commonwealth from entering into a trade agreement that includes certain provisions; requires the Commonwealth to include in all bilateral trade agreements a labour chapter with internationally recognised labour principles; prohibits the Commonwealth from entering into a trade agreement unless the agreement requires skills assessments to be undertaken in Australia; requires the minister to commission an independent national interest assessment of any proposed trade agreement; and provides for the establishment of an accredited trade advisers program. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Legislation Amendment (Improving Access and Transparency) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Archives Act 1983

  to require the reporting of external legal expenses incurred by the National Archives of Australia;

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  to: ensure that the Information Commissioner holds specified qualifications; and require the separate appointment of the Australian Information Commissioner, the Privacy Commissioner and the Freedom of Information (FOI) Commissioner; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to: enable the transfer of Information Commissioner reviewable decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT); require the consistent application of exemptions by decision makers in the context of a review by the Information Commissioner; prevent the Information Commissioner from making FOI decisions if he or she does not hold specified qualifications; prevent agencies from publishing FOI information until at least 10 days after the applicant has received his or her copy of the information; and require the reporting of external legal expenses for each Information Commission or AAT FOI matter that has concluded. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Speech Legislation Amendment (Censorship) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to remove the ban on publications, films and computer games that offend against standards of morality, decency and propriety; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: remove bans on broadcasting, datacasting and online content, with a specific focus on bans affecting services provided behind paywalls; narrow the guidance provided by government to broadcasting industries and datacasting licensees in the development of codes of practice; remove certain restrictions on subscription television broadcasters and online content services relating to programs or content that has been or would be classified as X 18+, ‘category 1 restricted’ or ‘category 2 restricted’; and remove a ban on broadcasting electoral advertising relating to a federal, state, territory or local election on election day or on the preceding Thursday or Friday. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Speech Legislation Amendment (Insult and Offend) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends 23 Commonwealth Acts to remove certain restrictions on insulting or offensive speech. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Speech Legislation Amendment (Security) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  ,

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to remove certain restrictions on speech. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: provide for courts to be prescribed in regulations as having the same family law parenting jurisdiction as state and territory courts of summary jurisdiction; provide for regulations to prescribe an increased total property value under which relevant courts can hear contested family law property matters without the parties’ consent; provide that a court may give short-form reasons for decisions relating to interim parenting orders; provide family law courts with an explicit power to dismiss unmeritorious applications; provide judges the discretion to dispense with requirements to explain an order or injunction to a child where it would be in the best interests of the child; remove the 21 day time limit on the revival, variation or suspension of family law orders by state and territory courts in family violence order proceedings; provide that a breach of a family law injunction for personal protection is a criminal offence; remove self-induced intoxication as a defence against charges relating to family violence; provide that criminal responsibility does not extend to the person protected by an injunction for personal protection if their conduct results in a breach of the injunction; provide for state and territory courts to revive, vary or suspend an injunction for personal protection when hearing a proceeding for a breach of that injunction; and repeal a redundant provision that permits a court to make an order relieving a party to a marriage from an obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights; and

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Parenting Management Hearings) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: establish the Parenting Management Hearings Panel as an independent statutory authority to provide self-represented litigants with an alternative to the court process for resolving parenting disputes; 11 Acts to make consequential amendments; and various Acts contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2017

  , proposed

  Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Act 2017

  and proposed

  Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2017

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Pay Protection) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to require employers to pay a base rate of pay, full rate of pay and any casual loading that is not less than the relevant award or national minimum wage for employees covered by an enterprise agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take-Home Pay) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CAMERON, Sen Doug
  DI NATALE, Sen Richard
  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: ensure that modern awards cannot be varied to reduce penalty rates or the hours to which penalties rates apply if the variation is likely to result in a reduction in the take-home pay of an employee; and provide that any such determination by the Fair Work Commission made on or after 22 February 2017 is of no effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Representation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  to: provide that the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) must have regard to the objective of ensuring that the interests of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishers are taken into account in the performance of its functions; provide an additional eligibility criteria for AFMA commissioners of expertise in matters relating to recreational or Indigenous fishing; provide restrictions on the appointment of commissioners who hold an executive position in a fishing representative organisation; increase the maximum size of management advisory committees from seven to ten (in addition to the Chair and the AFMA staff member); and require AFMA to try as far as practical to have memberships of commercial and recreational fishers on management advisory committees; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to provide that the minister, AFMA and Joint Authorities established under the Act must have regard to ensuring that the interests of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishers are taken into account in the performance of their functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom to Marry Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: define marriage as a union of two people; clarify that authorised celebrants are not bound to solemnise marriage; and remove the prohibition of the recognition of same sex marriages solemnised in a foreign country; and

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to make consequential amendments. Also includes a regulation making power so that consequential amendments can be made to other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Australian Workers) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CAMERON, Sen Doug 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: clarify the application of the Act to migrants; require Fair Work Information Statements to contain certain information; provide additional protection from adverse action in certain circumstances; introduce a ‘reasonable person’ test in determining whether an employer has engaged in sham contracting; enable the court to make orders requiring directors of phoenix companies to pay amounts owed by failed companies and orders disqualifying certain persons from managing corporations; increase maximum penalties for certain breaches of the Act; and introduce new offences for serious contraventions of the Act that involve the use of coercion or threats; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Financial Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: amend the financial agreement regime to remove existing uncertainties around requirements for entering, interpreting and enforcing agreements, make changes to the coverage of spousal maintenance matters in agreements, provide for a statement of principles to outline their binding nature, and to reinforce the binding nature of the agreements; strengthen protections from violence in certain procedural matters; strengthen Australia’s response to international parental child abduction; update the arrest powers of the family court; assist the operation of the family law courts; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: remove restrictions on employees’ rights to disclose the amount of, or information about, their pay or earnings; and prohibit employers from taking adverse action against employees for disclosing this information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Penalty Rates Exemption for Small Businesses) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Aug 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David
  DAY, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to remove the requirement that certain small businesses pay penalty rates unless the work is performed on a weekend and is in addition to 38 hours of work over a seven day period, is in addition to ten hours of work in a 24 hour period, or is performed on a public holiday. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Amendment (Requests and Reasons) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDWIG, Sen Joe 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to require agencies and ministers to publish the exact wording of freedom of information requests and a statement of reasons concerning the decision to allow or refuse the release of requested documents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Amendment (Fish Labelling) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  LAZARUS, Sen Glenn
  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter
  WANG, Sen Zhenya
  MADIGAN, Sen John 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve within 12 months, a labelling standard to prescribe how the food services sector must identify the country of origin of fish offered for immediate consumption in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Tax Benefit (Tighter Income Test) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to reduce certain Family Tax Benefit Part A payments by 20 per cent of any income in excess of the ‘income free area’ until the payment reaches zero. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom to Marry Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to provide that: people may marry regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity; registered marriage celebrants are not able to discriminate; religious and non-religious private sector celebrants have freedom of conscience not to solemnise marriages; and chaplains in the defence force may exercise a freedom of conscience while maintaining a positive duty to try to ensure that all couples who seek their services are able to marry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Flags Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Flags Act 1953

  to require that all Australian flags flown, used or supplied by the Commonwealth are manufactured in Australia from materials manufactured in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Trade (Australian Standards) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John 

  Summary

  Requires trade agreements to include a binding requirement that goods sold comply with all applicable product standards that apply in the purchaser’s country or that the selling company or entity selling the products ensures that the goods are improved to Australian product standards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Trade (Workers’ Rights) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John 

  Summary

  Requires the Commonwealth, through the minister, to ensure that an amended or new trade agreement with a country includes a binding agreement for minimum standards about workers’ rights in the other country’s domestic law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Towards Transparency) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ABETZ, Sen Eric 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: make it a civil offence for a reporting unit not to lodge a compliant full or concise report with Fair Work Australia; impose penalties on officers of registered organisations who do not act in good faith, or misuse their position or information obtained; increase pecuniary penalty orders that the Federal Court may make; and make it a criminal offence for a registered organisation, or officers of a registered organisation, to not comply with applicable orders of a state or Federal Court. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Small Business—Penalty Rates Exemption) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that businesses in the restaurant and catering or retail industries with fewer than 20 full-time and full-time equivalent employees are only required to pay penalty rates where an employee has worked more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period, or more than 38 hours in a seven-day period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to the textile, clothing and footwear industry to: extend the operation of most of the provisions of the Act to contract outworkers; enable outworkers to recover unpaid amounts up the supply chain; enable an outwork code of practice to be issued; and extend specific right of entry rules to sweatshop premises. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Acquisitions Amendment (Agricultural Land) Bill 2010 [2013]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Senator Nick
  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to: implement a national interest test to be applied against proposed foreign acquisitions of agricultural land; require any interest in agricultural land greater than five hectares to be notified to the Treasurer; require online publication of information about foreign acquisitions of interest in agricultural land; and impose penalties for not notifying the Treasurer of a proposed acquisition. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Genetically Modified Material) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve labelling standards to be used by food producers, manufacturers and distributors of food containing genetically modified material. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Parental Leave) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide 26 weeks government-funded paid parental leave for all eligible Australian parents at the level of the federal minimum wage, or average wage, with a right to return to work; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Safety (Trans Fats) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  The bill: prohibits the manufacture, distribution, offering for sale, selling or otherwise trading in food containing synthetic trans fatty acids; and retains the right of state and territory governments to develop their own complementary or alternative regulatory regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve labelling standards to be used by food producers, manufacturers and distributors of food containg palm oil; and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to include the use of palm oil in the characteristics of any goods for the purposes of misleading conduct as to the nature of goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Restoration of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Act 2007

  ,

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  and

  Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Act 2007

  so that: provisions of the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  prevail over the Acts; the Acts do not authorise conduct inconsistent with the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  ; the Acts and any acts done under them are intended to qualify as special measures; and any acts done, decisions made or discretion exercised under the Acts must be consistent with the intended beneficial purpose of the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Management and Accountability Amendment (Value for Money in Government Spending) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARNETT, Sen Guy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to place an obligation on heads of Commonwealth agencies to seek value for money when spending Commonwealth funds and to promote the same principles within their agencies. 

  Bill

• Food Importation (Bovine Meat Standards) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  COLBECK, Sen Richard
  JOYCE, Sen Barnaby 

  Summary

  The bill requires: that bovine meat and meat products must meet certain assessment processes before being imported into Australia; and the minister to determine a country of origin labelling standard for those products. 

  Bill

• Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  BROWN, Sen Bob
  JOYCE, Sen Barnaby 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve labelling standards to be used by food producers, manufacturers and distributors of food containing palm oil. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Restoration of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Act 2007

  ,

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  and

  Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Act 2007

  so that: provisions of the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  prevail over the Acts; the Acts do not authorise conduct inconsistent with the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  ; the Acts and any acts done under them are intended to qualify as special measures; and any acts done, decisions made or discretion exercised under the Acts must be consistent with the intended beneficial purpose of the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling Laws) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  BROWN, Sen Bob
  JOYCE, Sen Barnaby 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to require Food Standards Australia New Zealand to develop and approve food product labelling standards to be used by food producers, manufacturers and distributors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Paid Parental Leave) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide 26 weeks government-funded paid parental leave for all eligible Australian parents at the level of the federal minimum wage, or average wage, with a right to return to work; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Safety (Trans Fats) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  The bill: prohibits the manufacture, distribution, offering for sale, selling or otherwise trading in food containing synthetic trans fatty acids; and retains the right of state and territory governments to develop their own complementary or alternative regulatory regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [2009]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  ,

  Archives Act 1983

  ,

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to: remove the power to issue conclusive certificates; revoke existing conclusive certificates if a new access request is received; implement measures to protect sensitive information in proceedings before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Flags (Protection of Australian Flags) Amendment Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARNETT, Sen Guy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Flags Act 1953

  to protect the Australian National Flag and proclaimed flags from unlawful desecration or destruction by inserting offence and penalty provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Review of Prudential Decisions) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  ,

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  ,

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  ,

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Regulation and Review) Act 2007

  and

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers) Act 2007

  to introduce a court-based process for disqualifying an individual from operating an Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated entity;

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  in relation to APRA’s specific direction powers;

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to incorporate a materiality test into the trigger for APRA to issue a direction to freeze assets of a superannuation entity;

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to remove ministerial consent from administrative decisions made by APRA or the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) under those Acts; and

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to apply merits review to appropriate decisions made by APRA or the ATO. Also makes consequential amendments to other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: improve the food regulatory processes for Australia and New Zealand; and improve the framework within which the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Authority operates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Safety (Trans Fats) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  NETTLE, Kerry 

  Summary

  Prohibits the manufacturing, distribution, offering for sale, selling or otherwise trading in food containing synthetic trans fatty acids. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Trans-Tasman Banking Supervision) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  ,

  Banking Act 1959

  and

  Financial Sector (Transfers of Business) Act 1999

  to facilitate regulatory cooperation in relation to banking services in Australia and New Zealand. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Transaction Reports Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  to: amend the definition of “account” and “customer information”; and restrict the application of proposed Division 3A of Part II (which provides for customer information to be included in international funds transfer instructions) to authorised deposit taking institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Cooperative Fisheries Arrangements and Other Matters) Bill 2005 [2006]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to: clarify the meaning of certain Commonwealth fisheries management objectives; provide an express power for Commonwealth, State and Territory governments to amend or vary Offshore Constitutional Settlement fisheries arrangements; and facilitate cooperative fisheries management between Commonwealth, State and Territory governments by introducing regional fisheries arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (International Obligations and Other Matters) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to: give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean; increase the exchange of information with foreign governments and international intergovernmental organisations in relation to suspected illegal fishers; provide for improved management of Australia’s fish stocks; and correct a drafting error. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  contingent on commencement of the proposed

  Border Protection Legislation Amendment (Deterrence of Illegal Foreign Fishing) Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Mar 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  in relation to: enforcement of court orders; replacement of certain outdated terms (including introduction of the term “divorce”); recovery of child maintenance paid by a person found not to be a parent; operation of appeals; clarification of the rule-making power of the Family Court; and technical amendments; and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to confer on the Family Court of Western Australia the same jurisdiction that is conferred on the Family Court of Australia in relation to concurrent family law proceedings where a party is a bankrupt. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Annuities) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to extend the regime by which future superannuation payments can be split on marriage breakdown or divorce, to certain superannuation-like annuity products. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Validates certain plans of management determined, amended and/or revoked under the

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  . Also validates things done under or for the purposes of those plans. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Aug 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Validates certain plans of management determined, amended and/or revoked under the

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  . Also validates things done under or for the purposes of those plans. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Flags Amendment (Eureka Flag) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MARSHALL, Sen Gavin 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Flags Act 1953

  to recognise the Eureka Flag as an official flag of Australia. 

  Bill

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Compliance and Deterrence Measures and Other Matters) Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to: deterrence and compliance regimes to deter foreign fishers from illegally fishing in Australian waters; the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s management of Commonwealth fisheries resources; and ecologically sustainable management of Commonwealth fisheries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (High Seas Fishing Activities and Other Matters) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to strengthen the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s ability to deliver and enforce fisheries management in Commonwealth fisheries. Also contains a saving provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Management and Accountability (Anti-Restrictive Software Practices) Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GREIG, Brian 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to encourage the acquisition of open source computer software by government agencies. 

  Bill

• Freedom of Information Amendment (Open Government) Bill 2003 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MURRAY, Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and the Freedom of Information (Fees and Charges) Regulations to: extend access to information in the possession of the Commonwealth; and create an independent position of Freedom of Information Commissioner to be held by the Commonwealth Ombudsman. 

  Bill

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and other 2001 Budget Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Nov 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill

• Family Law Amendment (Joint Residency) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide for joint residence orders following separation or divorce, which will designate both parents as a child’s residence provider. 

  Bill

• Financial Corporations (Transfer of Assets and Liabilities) Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Corporations (Transfer of Assets and Liabilities) Act 1993

  to extend the sunset clause for foreign banks obtaining a banking authority in order to be eligible for concessional tax treatment when transferring assets and liabilities, to 30 June 2003; and to extend the deadline to effect any subsequent transfer of assets and liabilities from 30 June 2004 to 30 June 2006. 

  Bill

• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  to ensure that a Retirement Savings Account provider can comply with proposed regulations (provided for by the

  Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Act 2001

  ) in relation to division of superannuation interests on marriage breakdown; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  in relation to: anti-hawking provisions; insider trading exceptions; definition of “financial products”; and to correct certain drafting errors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Estimate Tolerance (Transition) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Aug 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Prices and Better Access for All (Petroleum) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Jun 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Fuel Quality Standards Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2000 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage portfolio 

  Bill

• Freedom of Information Amendment (Open Government) Bill 2000 [2002]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Sep 2000 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MURRAY, Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and the Freedom of Information (Fees and Charges) Regulations to: extend access to information in the possession of the Commonwealth; and create an independent Freedom of Information Commissioner. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Reform (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasurer's portfolio 

  Bill

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Apr 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Primary Industries and Energy portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Labelling Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 1997

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 1996 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Primary Industries and Energy portfolio 

  Bill

• Flags Amendment (Protection of Australian National Flags) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  CONAGHAN, Pat, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Flags Act 1953

  to prohibit the burning, destruction, desecration or other serious dishonouring of the Australian National Flag or the Australian Red Ensign. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Baby Priya’s) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that, unless employers and employees have expressly agreed otherwise, employer-funded paid parental leave must not be cancelled because a child is stillborn or dies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to implement or respond to certain recommendations from previous reviews and inquiries in relation to the Freedom of Information framework, including the

  Review of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  (the 2013 Hawke Review); and

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to establish a principle requiring the Fair Work Commission to ensure that penalty and overtime rates are not reduced and that modern awards do not include terms that substitute employees’ entitlements to receive penalty or overtime rates where those terms would have the effect of reducing that additional remuneration employees would otherwise receive. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: establish a hydrogen production tax offset that is available at a rate of $2 for a kilogram of eligible hydrogen for companies that satisfy certain eligibility requirements; and establish a critical minerals production tax incentive for expenditure incurred in carrying out registered processing activities; and

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to enable Indigenous Business Australia to borrow money for a purpose in connection with the performance of its functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Free TAFE Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Skills and Training 

  Summary

  Provides financial assistance to the state and territories for the delivery of free TAFE and vocational education and training places. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food and Grocery (Mandatory) Code of Conduct Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LITTLEPROUD, David, MP 

  Summary

  Applies the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct as a mandatory industry code for retailers and wholesalers who have an annual turnover of over $5 billion and provides for civil penalties for contraventions of the mandatory industry code. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum