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TOTAL RESULTS: 137
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- Date
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15 Feb 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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Industry, Science and Resources
- Summary
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Amends the:
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to implement the outcomes of the Offshore Oil and Gas Safety Review; Navigation Act 1912
and Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to clarify the validity of vessel safety certificates when a disconnectable facility transitions between the maritime and offshore petroleum regimes; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to: ensure that an approval of taking actions in accordance with a policy, plan or program remains effective following amendments to environmental regulations; enable the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority to specify the timeframe for a person to comply with a remedial direction; clarify the spatial extent of an eligible greenhouse gas storage formation; and make minor and technical amendments.
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- Date
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07 Dec 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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Introduced with the Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No. 1) Bill 2023, the bill establishes the Administrative Review Tribunal as a replacement for the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Also re-establishes the Administrative Review Council.
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- Date
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30 Nov 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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Amends the
Modern Slavery Act 2018
to establish the Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner as an independent statutory office holder within the Attorney-General’s portfolio to provide an independent mechanism for victims and survivors, business and civil society to engage on issues and strategies to address modern slavery.
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- Date
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15 Nov 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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Amends the:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
, Corporations Act 2001
, Judiciary Act 1903
, National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
and Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
to confer jurisdiction on the Federal Court of Australia to hear and determine a range of summary and indictable offences relating to conduct within the remit of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
to enable the Sheriff of the Federal Court to require a state or territory jury official to prepare and provide a jury panel; Marriage Act 1961
to make technical amendments in relation to the Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants Program and the notice of intended marriage; and Family Law Act 1975
, Native Title Act 1993
, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021
and Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
to make minor and technical amendments.
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- Date
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14 Jun 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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Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Summary
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Responding to certain recommendations of the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (the Thodey Review), the bill amends the
Public Service Act 1999
to: include a new Australian Public Service (APS) Value of ‘Stewardship’; require the Secretaries Board to prepare an APS Purpose Statement; require agency heads to uphold and promote the APS Purpose Statement; provide that ministers must not direct agency heads on individual employment matters; require agency heads to put in place measures to enable decision-making to occur at the lowest appropriate classification; require regular capability reviews; require the Secretaries Board to request and publish regular long-term insights reports; require agencies to publish annual APS Employee Census results and respond to relevant findings through an action plan; and remove the requirement to seek the APS Commissioner’s consent to delegate powers and functions to Australian Defence Force members.
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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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15 May 2024
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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VAN, Sen David
- Summary
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Amends the
Treasury Laws Amendment (Electric Car Discount) Act 2022
to extend the fringe benefits tax exemption for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles until 1 April 2030.
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- Date
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26 Mar 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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Home Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: require non-citizens who are on a removal pathway and have exhausted all avenues to remain in Australia to cooperate with steps taken for the purpose of arranging their lawful removal from Australia; and make minor and technical amendments.
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- Date
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25 Mar 2024
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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POCOCK, Sen David
LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
THORPE, Sen Lidia
WATERS, Sen Larissa
- Summary
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Amends the:
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
in relation to: lowering the disclosure threshold to $1,000; real-time disclosure of donations; prohibiting misleading or deceptive electoral or referendum matter; broadening the definition of gift; funding disclosure requirements; introduction of a major-donor donation cap; prohibiting certain political donations; limiting pre-election government advertising; postal vote processes; and increasing Senate representation for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory; and Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
and Do Not Call Register Act 2006
to provide that registered independent candidates are treated the same as political parties.
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- Date
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21 Mar 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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Health and Aged Care
- Summary
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Amends the
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
to provide a national framework to regulate the importation, domestic manufacture, supply, commercial possession and advertisement of all vapes, irrespective of nicotine content or therapeutic claims. Also makes consequential amendments to the Customs Act 1901
, Industrial Chemicals Act 2019
and Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023
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