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TOTAL RESULTS: 188
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05 Dec 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Establishes the Australian Business Growth Fund (ABGF) to: provide a source of 'patient capital' for small and medium enterprises; authorise investment by the Commonwealth in the ABGF; and appropriate $100 million for the purposes of the ABGF.
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05 Dec 2019
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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STERLE, Sen Glenn
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Amends the
Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012
to require masters of certain vessels to conduct two headcounts of passengers, one at the start of a voyage and one at the end.
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05 Dec 2019
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Act 2015
to: permanently increase the research and development (R&D) expenditure threshold from $100 million to $150 million; link the R&D tax offset for refundable R&D tax offset claimants to their corporate tax rates plus a 13.5 percentage point premium; cap the refundability of the R&D tax offset at $4 million per annum; and increase the targeting of the R&D tax incentive to larger R&D entities with high levels of R&D intensity; Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to extend the concept of tax benefits in the general anti-avoidance rule in Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
to include the R&D tax offset; Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
, Income Tax Rates Act 1986
and Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997
to: remake and consolidate provisions relating to clawback of R&D recoupments and feedstock adjustments; introduce a new uniform clawback rule that applies for recoupments, feedstock adjustments and balancing adjustment amounts included in an R&D entity's assessable income; and introduce a new catch-up rule for R&D assets; Taxation Administration Act 1953
to require the Commissioner of Taxation to publish information about relevant activities of R&D entities claiming the R&D tax offset following a two-year delay; Industry Research and Development Act 1986
(IR&D Act) to: provide for the Board of Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) to make a determination, by notifiable instrument, about how it will exercise its powers and perform its functions and duties; and expand the existing power of the Board of ISA and its committees to delegate some or all of their functions to include certain members of the Australian Public Service; and Industry Research and Development Decision-making Principles 2011 to provide that extensions of time granted under the IR&D Act may relate to certain applications.
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04 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Industrial Relations
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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 for 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 and make alternative orders 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 where the Fair Work Commissioner has determined the test should apply; provide that the commissioner must prioritise matters that raise serious or systemic concerns in carrying out his or her functions; provide that the minister must cause an independent review of the amendments made by the bill as soon as practicable after the end of two years after the amendments commence; and make minor and technical amendments.
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04 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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KENEALLY, Sen Kristina
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Amends the
Telecommunications Act 1997
to: clarify actions that designated communications providers must not be requested or required to do in technical assistance requests, technical assistance notices or technical capability notices; require the Australian Federal Police Commissioner not to approve technical assistance notices issued by the chief officer of state or territory interception agencies unless satisfied that the requirements of the notice are reasonable and proportionate, and compliance with the notice is practicable and technically feasible; remove the ability of the minister to edit and delete information in relevant reports prepared by the Commonwealth Ombudsman; and insert a judicial authorisation requirement in the approval or varying of technical assistance requests, technical assistance notices or technical capability notices.
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02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP
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Provides for independent audits of Australian banking corporations and their subsidiaries by the Auditor-General.
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02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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BANDT, Adam, MP
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Amends the
Climate Change Authority Act 2011
to require the Climate Change Authority to review, by 1 July 2020, the impact of three degrees of global warming on the economy and the environment.
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02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
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Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: lower the political donation disclosure threshold from $13 000 to $1000; and remove the indexation of the disclosure threshold.
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02 Dec 2019
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends: the
Criminal Code Act 1995
to: amend the offence of bribery of a foreign public official to extend the definition of foreign public official to include a candidate for office, remove the requirement that the foreign official must be influenced in the exercise of the official's duties, replace the requirement that a benefit and business advantage must be 'not legitimately due' with the concept of 'improperly influencing' a foreign public official, and extend the offence to cover bribery to obtain a personal advantage; and create a new offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983
to implement a Commonwealth Deferred Prosecution Agreement scheme to enable the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to invite a person that has engaged in serious corporate crime to negotiate an agreement to comply with a range of specified conditions; and five Acts to make consequential amendments.
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02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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WILKIE, Andrew, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Australian Meat and Livestock Industry Act 1997
and Export Control Act 1982
to: permanently ban from 1 July 2022 the export of live animals for slaughter; and establish interim requirements to ensure that animals are treated humanely after being exported.
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