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• Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work) Bill 2005, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to: workforce participation and returns to work for people receiving allowances; a new compliance framework; and RapidConnect, an initiative to provide faster access to Job Network for newstart and youth allowees;

  Disability Services Act 1986

  in relation to approval of rehabilitation programs; and

  Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and other 2001 Budget Measures) Act 2003

  to repeal the requirement for a ministerial review of the parenting payment participation agreements and flexible participation requirements for mature age newstart allowees regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005, the bill amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: increase the number of hours of child care benefit payable without needing to meeting the work/training/study test; and modify the work/training/study test applicable to those who wish to claim up to 50 hours child care benefit in a week. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and

  Customs Act 1901

  to extend the definition of terrorist organisation;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  in relation to financing terrorism offences;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to provide for control orders and preventative detention orders;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: extend stop, question, search and seize powers to all Commonwealth places and prescribed security zones; and provide for a notice to produce regime to ensure compliance with lawful requests for certain information;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  ,

  Migration Act 1958

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to update sedition offences;

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to authorise the use of video surveillance at Australia’s major airports and on aircraft;

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  ,

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  in relation to financial transaction reporting;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to: strengthen ASIO’s special powers warrant regime; provide ASIO with enhanced access to aircraft and vessel information; strengthen the offence for providing false or misleading information under an ASIO questioning warrant; and clarify that obligations, prohibitions or restrictions imposed by control orders will not be prescribed administrative action;

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Customs Administration Act 1985

  to broaden Customs powers for security and intelligence purposes; and

  Migration Act 1958

  to clarify the power to deport non-citizens on security grounds. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Census Information Legislation Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Archives Act 1983

  and

  Census and Statistics Act 1905

  to ensure that name-identified census information collected in all future censuses, from households which provide explicit consent, will be stored and preserved by the National Archives of Australia for release after a closed access period of 99 years; and

  Census and Statistics Act 1905

  to: make technical amendments as a consequence of the commencement of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; and harmonise criminal offence provisions with those contained in the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends Article 1 of the Agreement Establishing the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, contained in the

  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Act 1990

  , to specifically provide that Mongolia be a country of operations of the Bank, thereby making it eligible to receive financing from the Bank. Also creates a regulation-making power so that any future amendments to the Agreement can be made by regulation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to clarify that it is not necessary to identify a particular terrorist act to prove an offence. Also provides for a review by the Council of Australian Governments of the operation of the legislation after 5 years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  in relation to: creation of a national workplace relations system, including the establishment of the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) which will set and adjust minimum and award classification wages, minimum conditions of employment; public holidays; outworkers; direct bargaining between employers and employees; the role of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, particularly in relation to regulation of industrial action; a simplified system of awards; redundancy pay by small business employers; transmission of business rules; protection of key award conditions in bargaining processes; dispute settlement procedures; extension of the compliance regime; transitional arrangements; provides for the renumbering of the Act; and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 in relation to the establishment of the AFPC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management (Related Amendments) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2005, the bill amends the:

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to add a declaration under section 7 (selection of site of radioactive waste management facility) of the proposed

  Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005

  to the classes of decisions that are not decisions to which the Act applies; and

  Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

  to provide for an additional position, nominated by the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, on the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management (Related Amendment) Bill 2005, the bill clarifies the Commonwealth’s power to conduct activities necessary for, or incidental to, the selection of specified Commonwealth land as a site for, and the establishment and operation of, a radioactive waste management facility and the transportation of radioactive waste to the facility. The bill also specifies three Commonwealth potential sites in the Northern Territory which are to be further investigated; and provides for the Northern Territory Government and land councils to nominate potential sites. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Bill 2005 [2006]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

  to: give certainty to international cultural loan arrangements by providing that a certificate of exemption issued under the

  Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986

  allowing the return of loaned cultural heritage objects cannot be overridden by a declaration under the Act; repeal Part IIA and other Victoria-specific provisions to enable the Victorian Government to administer Aboriginal heritage protection in Victoria directly through its own legislation; and make technical amendments as a consequence of the commencement of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; and

  Aboriginal Land (Lake Condah and Framlingham Forest) Act 1987

  to make amendments consequential on the repeal of Part IIA of the

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum