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• Mutual Recognition Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Mutual Recognition Act 1992

  to: introduce a uniform scheme of automatic mutual recognition (AMR) by enabling an individual who is registered for an occupation in their home state to carry on those activities in other states and territories; enable a state minister to exempt a registration in their state from being subject to AMR for a renewable period of up to five years because of a significant risk to consumer protection, the environment, animal welfare or the health or safety of workers or the public; and enable a state minister to exempt a registration in their state for a temporary period of six months after commencement of the Act, with an option to extend for a further period to 30 June 2022 if needed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime MInister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 to implement a scheme to authorise and regulate access to Australian Government data, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  ,

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  ,

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  in relation to the operation of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 to implement a scheme to authorise and regulate access to Australian Government data, the bill: authorises public sector data custodians to share data with accredited users in accordance with specific authorisations, purposes, principles and agreements; specifies the specific responsibilities imposed on data scheme entities; establishes and specifies the functions and powers of the National Data Commissioner as the regulator of the scheme; establishes and specifies the functions and membership of the National Data Advisory Council as an advisory body to the commissioner in relation to sharing and use of public sector data; and establishes the regulation and enforcement framework for the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Royal Commission Act 1902

  to: enable a Royal Commission to hold private sessions where a regulation is made authorising it to do so; enable the Chair of a multi-member Royal Commission, or a sole Commissioner, to authorise Assistant Commissioners to hold private sessions; and impose limits on the use and disclosure of private session information and certain information given to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Governor-General Act 1974

  to increase the salary of the Governor-General from $425 000 to $495 000, calculated by reference to the estimated average salary of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia over the notional five-year term of the appointment of the Governor-General. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018 to implement the recommendation of the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review to establish an Office of National Intelligence (ONI), the bill: repeals the

  Office of National Assessments Act 1977

  ; amends 18 Acts to make consequential amendments; amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to make amendments contingent on the

  National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018

  ; and provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018 to implement the recommendation of the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review to establish an Office of National Intelligence (ONI), the bill establishes the ONI as an independent statutory agency within the Prime Minister’s portfolio reporting directly to the Prime Minister, and subsuming the role, functions and staff of the Office of National Assessments (ONA). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs and Integrity Agencies Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  ,

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  and

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: give effect to the allocation of certain ministerial powers following the establishment of a new Home Affairs portfolio; and make changes relating to the Attorney-General’s oversight of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Omnibus Repeal Day (Autumn 2015) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends: five Acts in the Agriculture portfolio to abolish the Australian Landcare Council, and make amendments consequential on seven Acts being repealed; two Acts in the Environment portfolio to abolish the Natural Heritage Trust Advisory Committee and the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee, and remove spent provisions; the

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  to remove certain administrative requirements for compensation payers and claimants; the

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Committee Self-management) Act 1978

  to make amendments consequential on two Acts being repealed; the

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

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to enable the release of information collected under the Acts in an aggregated form which does not disclose information about a particular person; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove spent indexation provisions, and make consequential amendments; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to remove spent provisions relating to the Retirement Assistance for Farmers Scheme and the Retirement Assistance for Sugarcane Farmers Scheme; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove spent savings, transitional and application provisions, and make technical amendments; three Acts in the Treasury portfolio to remove spent provisions; and the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to remove spent provisions relating to the Retirement Assistance for Farmers Scheme and the Retirement Assistance for Sugarcane Farmers Scheme. Also repeals 14 Acts administered in three portfolios. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Succession to the Crown Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  To effect changes to the law consistent with changes being made to the law in the United Kingdom, the bill: ends the system of male preference primogeniture so that the future order of succession will be determined simply by order of birth; removes the bar on succession for an heir and successor of the Sovereign who marries a Catholic; limits the requirement that the Sovereign consent to the marriage of a descendant of his late Majesty King George the Second to the six persons nearest in line to the Crown; validates some marriages voided by the

  Royal Marriages Act 1772

  of Great Britain; makes consequential amendments to the

  Act of Settlement

  and

  Bill of Rights

  ; and repeals the

  Royal Marriages Act 1772

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum