A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
TOTAL RESULTS: 352
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30 Nov 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Amends the
Export Control Act 2020
to: provide for the use and disclosure of certain information, including protected information; enable the secretary to impose or vary conditions at the same time as approving a variation to an approved arrangement, accredited property, registered establishment or export licence; require fit and proper person assessments to take into consideration certain information received under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991
; and make minor technical amendments.
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27 Oct 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
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Amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: amend the student identifier requirements for a person's eligibility to receive Commonwealth assistance; provide that units of study undertaken as part of an enabling course will not count towards a student's student learning entitlement; provide that domestic students undertaking a microcredential course are eligible for FEE-HELP; extend the FEE-HELP loan fee exemption to 31 December 2022; provide that New Zealand citizens are eligible for HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP only if they are a resident in Australia for the duration of the unit; remove the 10 per cent discount on up-front payments made by HECS-HELP students; and Higher Education Support Act 2003
and Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011
to make technical amendments.
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07 Sep 2022
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
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Amends: the
Emergency Response Fund Act 2019
to: rename the Emergency Response Fund as the Disaster Ready Fund; change the title of the Act to the Disaster Ready Fund Act 2019
; enable up to $200 million per financial year to be debited from the Disaster Ready Fund for natural disaster resilience and risk reduction; enable the minister to adjust the maximum disbursement amount by legislative instrument; transfer responsibility for fund expenditure to the National Emergency Management Agency; amend certain administrative arrangements in relation to transfers from the fund; and six Acts to make consequential amendments. Also enables the responsible ministers to make specified consequential amendments to the Emergency Response Fund Investment Mandate Direction 2020
by legislative instrument.
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30 Mar 2022
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Support and Other Measures) Bill 2022 and Customs Tariff Amendment (Cost of Living Support) Bill 2022, the bill amends the
Excise Tariff Act 1921
to reduce the excise duty rates for fuels, including petrol and diesel and similar petroleum-based products, including oils and grease by 50 per cent for a six-month period from 30 March to 28 September 2022.
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09 Feb 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
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Amends the:
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: require registered political parties and disclosure entities to use their current registered name in authorisations for electoral communications; and allow registered political parties certain limited flexibility in how their present their names in an authorisation; and Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984
, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
, Broadcasting Services Act 1992
and Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991
to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation, while retaining current authorisation requirements in relation to specified printed materials.
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09 Feb 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
- Summary
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Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to allow regulations to be made to temporarily expand the existing secure telephone voting method, currently available to sight impaired persons and Australians working in Antarctica, to coronavirus affected individuals for a limited time window.
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09 Feb 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance
- Summary
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Amends the:
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: prohibit foreign persons and entities from authorising electoral communications and from fundraising or directly incurring electoral expenditure in a financial year equal to or more than $1000; and make technical amendments; and Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
and Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984
to increase the penalty for the offence of misleading or deceiving an elector in relation to the casting of a vote.
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25 Nov 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Special Minister of State
- Summary
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Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: extend the application of the foreign donations framework to current sitting members of the House of Representatives and Senators; require members of the House of Representatives and Senators who receive gifts for the purpose of incurring electoral expenditure or creating or communicating electoral matter to lodge an annual return with the Australian Electoral Commission; and extend the period for which a person is taken to be a candidate by an additional six months for the purpose of the disclosure period for candidate and Senate group returns and for restrictions on receiving foreign donations.
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Special Minister of State
- Summary
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Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: respond to a recommendation of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters' Report on the conduct of the 2016 federal election and matters related thereto
by requiring the Electoral Commissioner to implement certain processes to assure the security and accuracy of the computer systems (including the systems for scanning ballot papers and counting votes) used to scrutinise votes for a Senate election; clarify the process for resolving candidate ties; clarify that the 'bulk exclusion' process is not required to be used in the computerised scrutiny process; allow a scrutineer to request access to an original ballot paper to resolve a question about formality or a preference vote being counted in the scrutiny of a Senate election; and require the Electoral Commissioner to publish Senate election data for each formal ballot case in the election within 7 days of the return of the writ for a Senate election.
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28 Oct 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Special Minister of State
- Summary
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Amends the
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
to: implement certain recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters' Report of the inquiry on the future conduct of elections operating during times of emergency situations
by enabling the Electoral Commissioner to make limited operational modifications by legislative instrument where an emergency declaration has been issued under a Commonwealth law and moving the existing power to adjourn or suspend polling at a polling place or pre-poll voting office from local polling booth presiding officers to the Electoral Commissioner; delay the commencement of the scrutiny for a House of Representatives election for a Division where polling has been adjourned or temporarily suspended; prevent scrutineers and Australian Electoral Commission officers from disclosing the results of a Senate election in a Division where polling has been adjourned; and make minor amendments in relation to the cut-off date for postal vote applications and the format of postal vote certificates.
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