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21 Jun 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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WATTS, Tim, MP
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Establishes a mandatory requirement for Commonwealth, state or territory entities, corporations and partnerships to report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre ransomware payments paid in response to a ransomware attack.
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21 Jun 2021
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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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Requires the Secretary of the Department of Defence to ensure that sensitive data held in high-risk offshore storage facilities are transferred to sovereign Australian storage facilities by 25 April 2022.
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17 Mar 2021
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends the:
Royal Commissions Act 1902
to: apply limitations on the use and disclosure of certain information provided by individuals to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability outside of a private session, where the commission indicated that it would be treated as confidential; enable certain members of a Royal Commission to make non-publication directions; and enable a Commonwealth Royal Commission, during the course of inquiring into a matter, to communicate information and evidence to a Royal Commission, or commission of inquiry, of a state or territory; and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to exempt certain information given to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability from the operation of the Act.
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03 Dec 2020
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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Amends: six Acts to remove current provisions providing for regulatory regimes and apply the standard provisions of the
Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014
; and the Regulatory Powers (Standards Provisions) Act 2014
to make minor amendments to the ability of monitoring powers to be exercised in relation to matters and the descriptions of offence provisions and provisions relating to infringement notices which might apply to the contravention of both a civil penalty and criminal offence provision.
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06 Oct 2020
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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STEELE-JOHN, Sen Jordon
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Amends the:
Royal Commissions Act 1902
to apply the limits on the use and disclosure of information given to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability (the commission) in private session, and the restrictions on the ability of such private session information to be used in evidence against the person who gave the information, to information given to the commission for purposes other than in a private session, where the commission has indicated the information is to be treated as confidential and has treated it as such; and Freedom of Information Act 1982
to make a consequential amendment.
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27 Aug 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
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Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the
Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983
to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the receiver licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments.
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27 Aug 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
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Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the
Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983
to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the transmitter licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments.
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27 Aug 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
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Introduced with the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends: the
Radiocommunications Act 1992
to: amend the object of the Act; provide for the minister to issue ministerial policy statements which the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) must have regard to in exercising its spectrum management; require ACMA to publish an annual work program covering a minimum five-year period; streamline spectrum allocation and re-allocation processes; extend maximum licence terms for apparatus and spectrum licences, confer certain powers on ACMA to make equipment rules that prescribe standards of equipment and impose obligations or prohibitions in relation to equipment; make amendments contingent on the commencement of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020
; expand ACMA's accreditation, compliance and enforcement, and information-gathering powers; make miscellaneous amendments in relation to ACMA's powers to grant exemptions from penalty provisions, exemptions for Defence related activities, and ACMA's ability to use computer assisted decision making; and extend the maximum duration of spectrum and apparatus licences; the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
in relation to annual reporting requirements; the Radiocommunications Act 1991
and four other Acts to repeal the datacasting transmitter licence framework; the Radiocommunications Act 1992
and Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005
to repeal redundant provisions in relation to public inquiries; and five Acts to make consequential or minor amendments.
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27 Aug 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Environment
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Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020. Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill: repeals the
Product Stewardship Act 2011
; provides for application, saving and transitional provisions relating to product stewardship; enables the minister to make transitional rules; and amends the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020
to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020
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27 Aug 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Environment
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Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill establishes a framework to: regulate the export of waste materials, in line with the agreement to ban the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres by the Council of Australian Governments in 2020; manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products, in particular those impacts associated with the disposal of products; and provide for voluntary, co-regulatory and mandatory product stewardship schemes.
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