TOTAL RESULTS: 866

• Customs Amendment (Preventing Child Labour) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to prohibit a person from importing goods involving child labour into Australia in certain circumstances where the importer has not complied with a notice in relation to the goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Voter Protections in Political Advertising) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to prohibit misleading or deceptive electoral or referendum matter. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ANTIC, Sen Alex
  BABET, Sen Ralph
  ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
  CANAVAN, Sen Matthew 

  Summary

  The bill: prohibits health practitioners from performing gender clinical interventions intended to transition a minor’s biological sex, subject to limited exemptions; and prohibits the Commonwealth from entering into arrangements involving the expenditure or payment of money that provides or facilitates the provision of such a procedure or treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Continuing ACCC Monitoring of Domestic Airline Competition) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SMITH, Sen Dean
  MCKENZIE, Sen Bridget 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to require the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to continue its price monitoring of domestic air passenger transport services and related goods and services for 3 years; and repeals the

  Competition and Consumer (Price Monitoring—Domestic Air Passenger Transport) Direction 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering the Donation Disclosure Threshold) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: lower the political donation disclosure threshold from $16,300 to $1,000 and remove the indexation of the disclosure threshold; and expand the definition of ‘gift’ to include electoral expenditure and gift-in-kind to a political entity where the value is over $1,000 and include amounts paid to attend political fundraisers or functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Real Time Disclosure of Political Donations) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: require political parties, state branches of political parties, significant third parties and candidates to provide a notice to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) of political donations received over the disclosure threshold amount of $13,800 within five business days of receiving the donation; and require annual returns to be provided to the AEC where political donations made by a single person exceeds the annual disclosure threshold amount. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Climate Change Act 2022

  to: require decision-makers to consider the health and wellbeing of children in Australia when making significant decisions; and require decision-makers not to make significant decisions in relation to the exploration or extraction of coal, oil or natural gas if the decision poses a material risk of harm to the health and wellbeing of children in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Prohibition of Nazi Symbols) Bill 2023 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEESER, Julian, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to prohibit a person from knowingly, and without reasonable excuse, displaying a Nazi symbol. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Prohibition of Nazi Symbols) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CASH, Sen Michaelia 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to prohibit a person from knowingly, and without reasonable excuse, displaying a Nazi symbol. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Cleaning up Political Donations) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: lower the donation disclosure threshold from $13,800 to $1,000 for individual donations and require aggregation under the threshold; expand the definition of 'gift'; introduce a cap of $50,000 on the total amount of donations a donor can provide during an electoral cycle; require real-time disclosure by gift recipients to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) within two business days of the donation threshold being reached or exceeded; require the AEC to publish donation returns by reporting entities on the Transparency Register as soon as reasonably practicable; introduce an electoral expenditure cap to limit the amount of money that can be spent on federal election campaigns; prohibit political donations from particular industries, including fossil fuel entities, gambling companies, liquor companies and the tobacco industry; and increase certain penalties for corporations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum