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• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Christmas) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to amend the National Employment Standards to require that people who work on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day receive public holiday penalty rates, regardless of whether the state or territory in which they reside has declared these dates as public holidays. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALBANESE, Anthony, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a High Speed Rail Planning Authority to advise on, plan and develop high speed rail on the east coast of Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renew Australia Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes Renew Australia as a statutory authority to oversee the transition of Australia’s electricity system to one based on renewable energy and provides for its functions and powers; establishes the Board of Renew Australia and provides for its functions, members and meetings; provides for the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer and staff, consultants and committees; provides for financial arrangements; and sets out a timetable for the phased closure of coal-fired power stations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation (Objective) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Requires bills and regulations relating to superannuation to be accompanied by a statement of their compatibility with the defined primary and subsidiary objectives of the superannuation system. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  and Migration Regulations 1994 to: prevent unauthorised maritime arrivals or transitory persons (referred to as members of the designated regional processing cohort) who were at least 18 years of age and were taken to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013 from making a valid application for an Australian visa; enable the minister to permit a member of the designated regional processing cohort, or a class of persons within the designated regional processing cohort, to make a valid application for a visa if the minister thinks it is in the public interest to do so; and prevent a member of the designated regional processing cohort from being deemed to have been granted a special purpose visa or being deemed to have applied for particular visas under the Migration Regulations 1994. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to: provide that parental leave pay under the Paid Parental Leave scheme will only be provided to parents who have no employer-provided paid primary carer leave, or whose employer-provided paid primary carer leave is for a period less than 18 weeks or is paid at a rate below the full-time national minimum wage; remove the requirement for employers to provide paid parental leave to eligible employees, unless an employer chooses to manage the payment to employees and the employees agree for the employer to pay them; extend the application of the four-week backdating rule; modify the paid parental leave work test to take into account the circumstances of pregnant women in hazardous occupations and to extend the permissible break from eight to 12 weeks; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Act 2016

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Visa Revalidation and Other Measures) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: establish a framework which requires certain visa holders to revalidate certain information, either within a specified period (a routine revalidation check) or if the minister determines that it is in the public interest (a public interest revalidation check); provide that certain events that cause a visa that is in effect to cease will, as a general rule, cause a visa that is held, but not in effect, to be taken to cease; and enable the use of contactless technology to clear travellers through the immigration clearance system (SmartGate). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Postal Corporation (Unsolicited Political Communications) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  to prevent Australia Post from delivering unaddressed political material to a premises where a sticker or sign specifically requests that unaddressed mail or political material not be delivered. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Private Sexual Material) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATTS, Tim, MP
  BUTLER, Terri, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to insert new offences in relation to the use of a carriage service for private sexual material (image-based sexual exploitation, or ‘revenge porn’). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Seafarers and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seacare scheme, the bill amends the:

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992

  to: introduce a new test to clarify coverage of the Seacare scheme; and implement amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention relating to insurance obligations of employers of seafarers;

  Seafarers, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to: align workers’ compensation arrangements for the Seacare and Comcare schemes with minimum benchmarks to be set by the proposed National Injury Insurance Scheme; and ensure that persons in receipt of incapacity payments can continue to receive those payments until they reach pension age;

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to clarify the application of the Act; and

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  ,

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992

  and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to make consequential amendments. Also: repeals the Financial Management and Accountability (Establishment of Special Account) Determination 2002/06,

  Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act 1993

  ,

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Levy Act 1992

  and

  Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Levy Collection Act 1992

  ; and integrates the functions currently performed by the Seacare Authority into Comcare, abolishes the Seacare Authority and splits the functions between Comcare and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (SRCC), and enables an advisory group to be appointed to support the SRCC and Comcare. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum