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• Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Cheaper Home Batteries) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAINES, Helen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to: include home batteries as an eligible technology to create small-scale technology certificates under the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme; and provide for an independent review of the operation of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Productivity Commission Amendment (Electricity Reporting) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DUNIAM, Sen Jonathon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Productivity Commission Act 1998

  to: require the Productivity Commission to prepare quarterly reports on retail electricity prices and energy sources for electricity generation; and require the minister to table these reports within 30 days after the end of the quarterly period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: prevent employers from contacting employees outside of work hours; and provide that employees are not required to monitor, read or respond to work communications from their employer outside of work hours. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ending Native Forest Logging Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002

  ; and amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to: make consequential amendments; and provide for annual statements from the minister and the Threatened Species Commissioner on the impact of native forest logging. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transparent and Quality Public Appointments Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SCAMPS, Sophie, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes a framework for making transparent and quality public appointments, including the establishment of Independent Selection Panels and the Office of the Public Appointments Commissioner to issue guidelines on the making of public appointments and report annually on public appointment selection processes; and establishes the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Appointments. 

  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

• Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  TEHAN, Dan, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: amend the character test by providing grounds to consider visa cancellation or refusal where a non-citizen has been convicted of offences involving violence against a person, weapons, breaching of an apprehended violence order (or similar) or non-consensual sexual acts; provide that, for an offence involving violence against a person, a person's conviction for an offence of common assault, or equivalent, will not be taken to be a conviction for a designated offence unless the act constituting the offence causes or substantially contributes to bodily harm to another person, or harm to another person's mental health, or involves family violence; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stop PEP11 and Protect Our Coast) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to cancel Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP11) and prohibit any further petroleum exploration in the PEP11. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: require the minister to provide an offer of transfer to Australia to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; and provide that transferred persons will be placed in community detention while they pursue a durable solution, being resettlement in a third country which is a state party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Refugee Protocol. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Lowering the Voting Age) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BATES, Stephen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: lower the minimum voting age in Australian federal elections and referenda from 18 to 16 years; provide for 16 and 17 year olds to be included in the certified list of voters (but not to be given a penalty notice if they do not vote); and provide that an eligible voter, who is not yet on the electoral roll or enrolled at their correct address, is able to cast a provisional vote on election day. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum