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• Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to: establish criminal offences and associated civil penalty provisions for a person who unduly influences, pressures or coerces a non-citizen to breach a work-related condition of their visa or accept an exploitative work arrangement to meet a work-related condition of their visa; enable the minister to prohibit certain employers from employing any additional non-citizens and introduce associated offence and civil penalty provisions; require the minister to publish certain information about a prohibited employer; increase and align the maximum criminal and civil penalties for current and proposed work-related and employer-sponsored related breaches; trigger the enforceable undertaking provisions in the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; provide for enforceable compliance notices where an officer suspects a contravention of a work or sponsorship-related offence or related provision; remove the criminal offence of breaching a work-related visa condition and insert an avoidance of doubt clause for remaining work-related offence provisions; and enable the

  Migration Regulations 1994

  to prescribe matters the minister may, must or must not take into account when considering the exercise of the power to cancel visas on certain grounds. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Giving Documents and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: require all cancellation-related documents to be given in writing and enable the regulations to prescribe methods for giving such documents; ensure that where the minister gives a document to a person and makes an error in doing so, the giving of the document is valid where the person actually receives the document and the document is taken to have complied with the content-related requirements where the minister has substantially complied with those content requirements and the error does not cause substantial prejudice to the person’s rights; and remove the prohibition on non-citizens who are nationals of two or more countries and certain other cohorts from making a valid application for a protection visa. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Bridging Visa Conditions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  and

  Migration Regulations 1994

  in response to the High Court’s judgement in

  NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs & Anor

  (S28/2023) to provide for certain conditions to be placed on bridging visas granted to non-citizens released from immigration detention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Australia’s Engagement in the Pacific and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration (Visa Pre-application Process) Charge Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable the minister to implement a visa pre-application process to enable the random selection of eligible persons who would then be permitted to apply for a relevant visa. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Responds to the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in

  Pearson v Minister for Home Affairs

  [2022] FCAFC 203 by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a clear basis for aggregate sentences (that is, one sentence imposed in respect of more than one offence) to be taken into account in a consistent manner for all relevant purposes under the Act and the

  Migration Regulations 1994

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration (Visa Pre-application Process) Charge Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration Amendment (Australia’s Engagement in the Pacific and Other Measures) Bill 2023, the bill imposes a charge on a person registering to participate in a visa pre-application process. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  to: implement certain recommendations of the review by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in relation to the Act’s employment framework; and make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service. Also makes consequential amendments to 18 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Implements Australia's obligations under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships by amending the:

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to: introduce controls for discharges of residues of noxious liquid substances known as 'persistent floaters' in northern European waters; and ban the use of heavy fuel oil by ships in Arctic waters;

  Protection of the Sea (Harmful Anti-fouling Systems) Act 2006

  to extend controls on ship harmful anti-fouling systems to include the chemical biocide, cybutryne; and

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  and

  Protection of the Sea (Harmful Anti-fouling Systems) Act 2006

  to make minor technical and consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022, the bill establishes Jobs and Skills Australia, as a statutory body within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, to provide advice and collect, analyse, share and publish data and other information on Australia's current and emerging labour market and its current, emerging and future skills and training needs and priorities (including in relation to apprenticeships), and the adequacy of the Australian system for providing vocational education and training (including training outcomes). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Jobs and Skills Australia Act 2022

  to: provide for the permanent governance arrangements and functions of Jobs and skills Australia; provide for the minister to establish a Ministerial Advisory Board to advise in relation to the performance of the functions of Jobs and Skills Australia; and provide for a review of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum