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27 Mar 2024
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Attorney-General
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Amends the
Criminal Code Act 1995
to increase penalties for causing harm, or threatening to cause harm, to a Commonwealth public official who is also a Commonwealth frontline worker.
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27 Mar 2024
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Amends the
Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012
to: enable testing of timber products at the border and beyond to ensure non-compliant illegally logged timber is not imported; introduce a requirement for importers and processors to give notice before importing or processing regulated timber products; add strict liability offences, injunctions and enforceable undertakings to enforcement powers; enable audits to be carried out to determine compliance with the due diligence requirements; and extend the time frame for issuing infringement notices to 24 months and enable the department to publish details of contraventions on their website.
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27 Mar 2024
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National Disability Insurance Scheme
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Amends the:
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
to: define National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supports; clarify the process for reassessment of participant status; provide for participants to transition to a new framework plan; provide for new framework plans that include a flexible budget and budget for stated supports; provide for old framework plans to have a total funding amount; update the circumstances in which the National Disability Insurance Agency will manage funds; require participants spend money only on NDIS supports and in accordance with their plan; exempt NDIS rules from sunsetting; impose conditions on approved quality auditors to not employ or engage a person against whom a banning order has been made; and expand the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner’s delegation powers. Also makes consequential amendments to the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015
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27 Mar 2024
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Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Introduced with the Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024, the bill provides for transitional arrangements relating to the establishment of the Net Zero Economy Authority.
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27 Mar 2024
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Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Introduced with the Net Zero Economy Authority (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024, the bill establishes the Net Zero Economy Authority to promote economic transformation as Australia transitions to a net zero emissions economy.
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27 Mar 2024
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Treasury
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Amends: the
Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to provide a legal basis for payment of advice fees from a member’s superannuation account and clarify the associated tax consequences; the Corporations Act 2001
in relation to: ongoing fee renewal and consent requirements; financial services guide requirements; rules banning conflicted remuneration; and standardised consumer consent requirements for certain insurance commissions; the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987
to: align the petroleum resource rent tax general anti-avoidance provisions with the general anti-avoidance provisions in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
; and clarify the meaning of ‘exploration for petroleum’; the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to: clarify mining, quarrying or prospecting rights (MQPRs) cannot be depreciated for income tax purposes until they are used; clarify when income tax balancing adjustments occur to MQPRs; and amend the location offset and producer offset for films; 15 Acts to amend the process by which amendments to agreements with multilateral development banks are incorporated into domestic legislation; and 8 Acts to make miscellaneous and technical amendments to Treasury portfolio legislation.
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27 Mar 2024
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Corporations Act 2001
and 8 other Acts to implement recommendations by the Council of Financial Regulators in relation to Australia’s financial market infrastructure by: introducing a crisis management and resolution regime for domestic clearing and settlement (CS) facilities; expanding the licensing, supervisory and enforcement powers of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA); and transferring certain powers relating to the licensing and supervision of CS facilities and financial markets to ASIC and the RBA; Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
and Corporations Act 2001
to phase-in new climate-related financial reporting requirements for entities; and Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
, Corporations Act 2001
and Insurance Act 1973
to make minor and technical amendments.
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25 Mar 2024
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COLEMAN, David, MP
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Amends the:
Criminal Code Act 1995
to insert an offence provision relating to the posting of harmful material to increase notoriety; Online Safety Act 2021
to expand the powers of the eSafety Commissioner to include administering a complaints system for criminal activity material; and Crimes Act 1914
to enable a court to make an order directing a person to cease using certain online services.
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25 Mar 2024
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CHANEY, Kate, MP
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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; and postal vote processes; 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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25 Mar 2024
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KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP
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The bill: provides for a limit on market share for supermarket businesses, including enforced progressive divesture to 20 per cent over a 5-year period where necessary; and establishes a Commissioner for Food Retailing to administer limits on market share and promote competition and fairness principles.
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