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• Live Animal Export Prohibition (Ending Cruelty) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  to: prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter on or after 1 July 2020; and provide in the interim that export licence holders ensure all live stock are treated satisfactorily prior to slaughter; and

  Export Control Act 1982

  to: prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter unless the secretary is satisfied that the live-stock will be treated satisfactorily prior to slaughter; and prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter on or after 1 July 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Land Transport Amendment (Best Practice Rail Investment) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Land Transport Act 2014

  to: include additional matters which the minister must consider when approving a project as an Investment Project; and provide for the publishing and tabling of the project approval instrument for an Investment Project and a summary of the evidence on which the minister’s decision to approve the project is based. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (Executive Remuneration) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  ,

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  and Remuneration Tribunal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1976 to make the Remuneration Tribunal the responsible body for setting the remuneration of the Managing Director of Australia Post; and

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to make the tribunal the responsible body for setting the remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer of NBN Co. 

  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

• Banking and Financial Services Commission of Inquiry Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter
  HANSON, Sen Pauline
  HINCH, Sen Derryn
  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
  ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Establishes a parliamentary inquiry into banking and financial services to report to Parliament on particular matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Communications Legislation Amendment (SBS Advertising Flexibility) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to: increase the restriction of no more than five minutes per hour of advertising to 10 minutes of advertising in any hour of broadcasting on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS); and clarify SBS’s ability to earn revenue through the broadcast of programs containing product placement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011

  to: remove the obligation to obtain consent of eligible interest holders from existing area-based emissions-avoidance projects; clarify that state and territory government Crown lands ministers and Commonwealth ministers responsible for land rights legislation have consent rights for projects conducted on exclusive possession native title land that is Torrens system land or land rights land; provide for legislative rules or regulations to allow parts of a sequestration offsets project to be removed and credits surrendered for the carbon stored in that area; ensure a sequestration project’s net total liability under the scheme does not include credits issued for emissions avoidance or credits that have already been relinquished; clarify that requirements to relinquish carbon credits if carbon stores are lost apply to sequestration projects that store carbon and avoid emissions; provide for projects to transfer between methods so as to move between emissions-avoidance and sequestration; ensure that relinquishment requirements apply to projects whose crediting period extends beyond their permanence period; and allow legislative rules or regulations to provide for the removal of regulatory approval or consent conditions on declarations obtained after the end of the first reporting period for the project. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Banking Amendment (Establishing an Effective Code of Conduct) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  to: require the minister to make, by legislative instrument, a Banking Code of Conduct; and provide for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to receive and investigate complaints in relation to non-compliance with the code by authorised deposit-taking institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• People of Australia’s Commission of Inquiry (Banking and Financial Services) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a Commission of Inquiry to inquire into unethical, unlawful and improper conduct in the banking, financial services and related sectors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renew Australia Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes Renew Australia as a statutory authority to oversee the transition of Australia’s electricity system to one based on renewable energy and provides for its functions and powers; establishes the Board of Renew Australia and provides for its functions, members and meetings; provides for the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer and staff, consultants and committees; provides for financial arrangements; and sets out a timetable for the phased closure of coal-fired power stations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum