Environment and Communications Legislation Committee

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020
          Status: Submissions closed
          Date Referred: 27 February 2020
          Reporting Date: 20 October 2021
  
  Track Inquiry
  
  
Inquiry into the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020.

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Save the Koala) Bill 2021
          Status: Submissions Closed
          Date Referred: 25 February 2021
          Reporting Date: 02 December 2021
  
  Track Inquiry
  
  
• Interactive Gambling Amendment (Prohibition on Credit Card Use) Bill 2020
          Status: Submissions Closed
          Date Referred: 18 March 2021
          Reporting Date: 08 October 2021
  
  Track Inquiry
  
  

The bill would amend the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 to prevent interactive gambling service providers from accepting payments by credit card (either directly or indirectly), create a criminal offence and civil penalty provision for a person who accepts, facilitates or promotes credit card payments for interactive gambling services and provides for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to enforce and review the new requirements.

• Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee Fund Bill 2021
          Status: Accepting Submissions
          Date Referred: 02 September 2021
          Reporting Date: 13 October 2021
  
  Track Inquiry
  
  
• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 and Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021
          Status: Accepting Submissions
          Date Referred: 02 September 2021
          Reporting Date: 14 October 2021
  
  Track Inquiry
  
  

The Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 would establish a regulatory framework to enable the construction, installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of offshore electricity infrastructure in the Commonwealth offshore area. The Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021 would allow for the imposition of levies on regulated entities to recover the regulatory costs.

Environment and Communications References Committee

• Australia’s faunal extinction crisis
          Status: Receiving submissions
          Date Referred: 23 July 2019
          Reporting Date: 30 November 2021
  
  
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• Media diversity in Australia
          Status: Submissions closed
          Date Referred: 11 November 2020
          Reporting Date: 15 November 2021
  
  
Track Inquiry


• Oil and gas exploration and production in the Beetaloo Basin
          Status: Interim report tabled
          Date Referred: 23 June 2021
  
  
Track Inquiry

• Completed inquiries by this committee