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TOTAL RESULTS: 145
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- Date
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27 Nov 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Establishes a scheme for courts to make Commonwealth workplace protection orders to prevent personal violence against Commonwealth workers or in Commonwealth workplaces.
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- Date
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10 Oct 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends the:
Ombudsman Act 1976
and Inspector-General of Taxation Act 2003
to implement two recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme by: imposing a statutory duty on agency heads and their staff to assist the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman (IGTO) in the performance of their functions; and expanding the powers of the Ombudsman and IGTO to access agency records; Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
to clarify that the Inspector-General of Security and Intelligence is entitled to reasonable facilities and assistance when making preliminary inquiries of the head of an intelligence agency; and Ombudsman Act 1976
to: enable the Ombudsman and IGTO to access documents and other records by remote means; and make technical and contingent amendments.
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- Date
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21 Aug 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends 52 Acts to make consequential and technical amendments arising from the enactment of the
Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024
. Also repeals the Tribunals Amalgamation Act 2015
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- Date
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22 Jun 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Before House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends the:
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Intelligence Services Act 2001
to: expand the jurisdictions of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to include the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs; provide that the PJCIS may review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation, and all such expiring legislation; enable the PJCIS to request the IGIS to conduct an inquiry into certain operational activities of the agencies within the IGIS’s jurisdiction; clarify the legislation which enables the PJCIS to request a briefing from the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor; clarify the IGIS’s complaints jurisdiction; and make technical amendments; Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Office of National Intelligence Act 2018
to require the IGIS and the Office of National Intelligence to provide annual briefings to the PJCIS; Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010
to require the IGIS to provide annual briefings to the committee; Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975
to amend the review and access of ACIC criminal intelligence assessment records; and Criminal Code Act 1995
to include an exemption from civil and criminal liability for defence officials and others for certain computer-related conduct. Also makes consequential amendments to 15 Acts.
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- Date
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30 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Proposes an alteration to the Constitution to recognise First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. [
The bill was passed by an absolute majority of each House of the Parliament. The proposal was not approved at the subsequent referendum on 14 October 2023
.]
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- Date
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05 Feb 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Climate Change and Energy
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- Date
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20 Nov 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Amends the
Competition and Consumer Act 2010
to separate the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and establish the AER as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.
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- Date
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06 Feb 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Education
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- Date
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06 Feb 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Before House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Education
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- Date
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05 Feb 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Education
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