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• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Assurance of Senate Counting) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Contingency Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: make completion of a qualification checklist compulsory in relation to candidate nominations; enable candidates to lodge their nominations and certain other documents electronically; and allow a senior Australian Electoral Commission staff member rather than a senior Divisional Returning Officer to be on the Redistribution Committee for the Australian Capital Territory; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to amend various aspects of voting and scrutiny processes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Implements the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ report The 2016 Federal Election: Interim Report on the authorisation of voter communication by amending the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: apply the electoral authorisation requirements to modern communication channels; require all paid electoral advertising to be authorised; require entities subject to the electoral funding and financial disclosure regime to include this information in their political communications; ensure the obligation to authorise electoral and referendum matter primarily rests with those responsible for the decision to communicate it; and replace the current criminal non-compliance regime with a civil penalty regime to be administered by the Australian Electoral Commission;

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  ,

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1993

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation;

  Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to introduce an offence which criminalises false representations in relation to a Commonwealth body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Entitlements Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002

  to: amend the short title of the Act to the

  Parliamentary Retirement Travel Act 2002

  ; impose certain limits on access to the parliamentary retirement travel entitlement; reduce the number of trips available under the entitlement; remove the ability of spouses or de facto partners (other than those of a former prime minister) to access the entitlement; reduce the entitlement of spouses or de facto partners of a former prime minister; and require that all travel under the entitlement be subject to a public benefit test;

  Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990

  to: apply a 25 per cent loading to any adjustment to a prescribed travel benefit; and limit the domestic travel entitlement of dependent children of senior officers to those under 18 years of age; and

  Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990

  and

  Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002

  to enable the recovery of payments made which are beyond the entitlement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: require the Australian Electoral Commission to send a Yes/No referendum pamphlet to each residential address on the electoral roll rather than to each elector; and temporarily suspend the limit on Commonwealth spending on referendum proposals. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Administration) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  In response to certain recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters report

  The 2010 federal election: report on the conduct of the election and related matters

  , the bill amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: provide for further fixed periods of time to be provided to the augmented Electoral Commission to complete its inquiries into objections against proposed redistribution of electoral boundaries; and not require a silent voter to re-apply to be treated as a silent voter when changing address;

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: establish procedures to be taken when a ballot-box is opened prematurely; remove the requirement for an applicant for a pre-poll ordinary vote to complete and sign a certificate; provide that pre-poll voting offences will open on the fourth day after nominations close; and provide that applications for postal votes must be received on the Wednesday three days before polling day; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to allow the Australian Taxation Office to disclose protected information to the Electoral Commissioner. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Procedure) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: remove the prescription relating to how postal votes are processed and facilitate technological developments over time; and make technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: increase to $1000 and $2000, respectively, the nomination deposit that must be paid by or on behalf of candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate; increase to 100 the number of electors required to nominate an unendorsed candidate; and require unendorsed Senate candidates, who have made a request to be grouped, to each be nominated by 100 unique electors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Protecting Elector Participation) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: allow the Electoral Commissioner to directly enrol a person if the Electoral Commissioner is satisfied that the person has met certain criteria; require the person to be notified of the Electoral Commissioner’s intention to enrol them and give the elector the opportunity to object to the enrolment; allow the Electoral Commissioner to admit certain declaration votes to further scrutiny; allow the Electoral Commissioner to enrol certain persons who have cast declaration votes and who have been removed from the roll; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002

  to: close the Life Gold Pass (LGP) scheme prospectively so that certain members who enter, or re-enter the Parliament, will not be able to accrue an entitlement to a LGP; and reduce the travel entitlements for certain LGP holders and their spouses or de facto partners; and

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  and

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  to give the Remuneration Tribunal the power to determine portions of additional parliamentary officeholder salary and additional salary in relation to a minister of state that may be excluded from the calculation of superannuation benefits payable to certain ministers of state and parliamentary office holders. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum