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• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Jabiru) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Australians 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to: remove the requirement that the term of the Jabiru township lease be 99 years to allow for a shorter term between 40 and 99 years; remove the requirement that the initial grant of the township lease can only be to the Commonwealth; clarify that the new township lease will not automatically extend the term of existing Jabiru subleases beyond the term of the current town head lease; and remove redundant Jabiru-specific leasing provisions; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to make a minor consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to clarify the operation of the Act in relation to the Commonwealth's undertakings on Norfolk Island. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Withdrawal from Amalgamations) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to establish a process to enable constituent parts of registered organisations that have amalgamated with other organisations to withdraw from the amalgamated organisation outside the current time-limited period of five years post-amalgamation, in specified circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to: defining casual employment; including a casual conversion entitlement in the National Employment Standards; providing a Casual Employment Information Statement to casual employees; offsetting casual loading amounts against claims for leave and other entitlements in certain circumstances; additional hours for part-time employees; flexible work directions; enterprise agreement making and approval processes; extending the nominal life of greenfields agreements relating to the construction of major projects; the compliance and enforcement framework; Fair Work Commission processes; and consequential amendments;

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide for the cessation of certain agreement based transitional instruments on 1 July 2022;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  to: enable the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner to accept an enforceable undertaking in relation to a suspected remuneration-related contravention; and require the commissioner to publish certain information in relation to enforcement proceedings;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  and

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Improving Unpaid Parental Leave for Parents of Stillborn Babies and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: respond to the report of the Senate Select Committee on Stillbirth Research and Education by amending and clarifying the minimum leave entitlements for parents of stillborn babies and babies who die during the first 24 months of life, and providing that where a baby remains in hospital or is hospitalised immediately following birth, the employer and employee can agree to the employee returning to work while their baby is in hospital and recommencing their unpaid parental leave when the baby is discharged; and provide the ability for employees who are eligible to take unpaid parental leave (UPL) to take up to 30 days of their 12-month entitlement to UPL flexibly, including on a single-day basis, within 24 months of the birth or adoption of a child. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2014, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to confine the operation of the levy regime to the area constituted by the existing definition of designated coastal waters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: expand the definition of ‘designated coastal waters’ to include all waters of the sea landward of the Commonwealth offshore area; and permit registered multiple petroleum titleholders to take eligible voluntary actions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010

  to: allow building owners who receive unsolicited offers for the sale or lease of their office space and transactions between wholly-owned subsidiaries to be excluded from energy efficiency disclosure obligations; enable certain auditing authorities to directly provide or approve ratings used in Building Energy Efficiency Certificates (BEEC); enable businesses to nominate a commencement date for a BEEC which is later than the date of issue; remove the need for new owners and lessors to reapply or pay the application fee for fresh exemptions if there is an existing one in place for a building; and remove the standard energy efficiency guidance from each BEEC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Act 2008

  to abolish the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Support Loans (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Trade Support Loans Bill 2014, the bill amends five Acts consequential on the establishment of the Trade Support Loans Programme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum