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• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Heritage Listing for the Bight) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to grant National Heritage status to the Great Australian Bight. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Live Sheep Long Haul Export Prohibition Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  and

  Export Control Act 1982

  to restrict the long haul export of live sheep and lambs during the northern hemisphere summer months of June, July, August or September in a five year transitional period, or at any time after that period, where the voyage is by ship and of duration exceeding 10 days, and where a place in that voyage is either the Persian Gulf or the Red Sea (regardless of whether it is the final destination). 

  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

• Migration Amendment (Streamlining Visa Processing) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: enable the minister to specify groups of applicants who are required to provide one or more personal identifiers to have a valid visa application; render a visa application invalid if the applicant is required to provide one or more personal identifiers but does not provide them; and enable personal identifiers to be provided either by way of an identification test, or by another way specified by the minister. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: amend the character test by providing grounds to consider visa cancellation or refusal where a non-citizen has been convicted of offences involving violence against a person, weapons, breaching of an apprehended violence order (or similar) or non-consensual sexual acts; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  and

  Migration Regulations 1994

  to: prevent unauthorised maritime arrivals or transitory persons (referred to as members of the designated regional processing cohort) who were at least 18 years of age and were taken to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013 from making a valid application for an Australian visa; enable the minister to permit a member of the designated regional processing cohort, or a class of persons within the designated regional processing cohort, to make a valid application for a visa if the minister thinks it is in the public interest to do so; and prevent a member of the designated regional processing cohort from being deemed to have been granted a special purpose visa or being deemed to have applied for particular visas under the

  Migration Regulations 1994

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• 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 Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation 

  Summary

  Implements a recommendation of the Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements (the Wood review) by amending the

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: establish Sport Integrity Australia to bring together the functions of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and the National Integrity of Sport Unit within the Department of Health, as well as the sports integrity functions of Sport Australia; and amend the short title of the Act to the

  Sport Integrity Australia Act 2019

  . Also makes consequential amendments to seven Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance Amendment (Bonded Medical Programs Reform) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to introduce a statutory scheme (the Bonded Medical Program) which consolidates the existing Bonded Medical Places and Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship schemes under a single legislative framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum