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TOTAL RESULTS: 188
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04 Jul 2019
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Senate
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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The bill: provides a general recognition of veterans and their families; sets out the Australian Defence Force Covenant; provides statements that veterans’ affairs portfolio legislation will be interpreted with a beneficial intention and that the Commonwealth is committed to working cooperatively with veterans, their families and ex-service organisations to address issues facing veterans; and provides that the Commonwealth may issue pins, cards and other artefacts to veterans and their family members.
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04 Jul 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management
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Amends the
Water Act 2007
to provide for a standing Indigenous member position on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
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17 Oct 2019
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Youth and Sport
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Implements certain recommendations 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
and Australian Sports Commission Act 1989
to abolish the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel; and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006
to: extend statutory protection against civil actions to national sporting organisations and their staff in the exercise of anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) functions; extend the current protection that allows an entrusted person to resist production of protected information to a court or tribunal to any person in possession of protected information; change the statutory threshold at which the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority CEO may issue a disclosure notice from ‘reasonably believes’ (that a person has information, documents or things that may be relevant to administration of the national anti-doping scheme) to ‘reasonably suspects’; allow a person entitled to inspect or view a document produced pursuant to a disclosure notice to do so only at such times and places as the CEO thinks appropriate; increase the penalty for non-compliance with a disclosure notice from 30 to 60 penalty units; and provide that a person is not excused from complying with the requirement to answer a question, and give information or provide a document or thing on the grounds that doing so may incriminate them or expose them to a penalty. Also makes amendments to three Acts contingent on the commencement of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Act 2019
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17 Oct 2019
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Youth and Sport
- Summary
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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 eight Acts, and makes amendments to three Acts contingent on the commencement of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia's Anti-Doping Capability) Act 2019
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- Date
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24 Jul 2019
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Youth and Sport
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Introduced with the National Sports Tribunal Bill 2019 to implement certain recommendations of the
Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements
(the Wood review), the bill makes consequential amendments to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006
and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to support the establishment of the National Sports Tribunal.
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- Date
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24 Jul 2019
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Youth and Sport
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Introduced with the National Sports Tribunal (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019 to implement certain recommendations of the
Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements
(the Wood review), the bill provides for the establishment and operation of the National Sports Tribunal as an independent specialist tribunal for the hearing and resolution of sporting disputes.
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- Date
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05 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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STERLE, Sen Glenn
- Summary
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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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04 Dec 2019
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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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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- Date
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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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Sponsor
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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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Sponsor
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BANDT, Adam, MP
- Summary
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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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