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• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Deregulatory and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: remove the requirement for reporting a food related death, serious injury or illness to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC); remove the requirement for litigants to obtain ministerial consent to bring an action for a breach of the Act that takes place overseas; enable consumers to seek redress in state and territory courts and tribunals for breaches of the Act; remove the requirement for the ACCC to maintain a register of certain records when they hold conferences for product safety bans; enable the ACCC to share certain notices it receives with specified agencies to protect public safety; clarify the operation of the cooling-off period for unsolicited consumer agreements; permit the ACCC to seek a court order directing a person to comply with a notice to obtain information, documents and evidence; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

  to: replace references to the former Australia and New Zealand Regulation Ministerial Council with references to the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Charter of Budget Honesty Amendment (Intergenerational Report) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  to: require the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) to prepare an intergenerational report for the Treasurer every five years; and enable the PBO to request a Commonwealth body to provide information that is relevant to the preparation of that report; and

  Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Aid (Promoting Gender Equality) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Requires any use of official development or humanitarian assistance to have regard to reducing gender inequality, and the minister to present an annual report setting out how the Commonwealth used international aid to promote general equality in recipient countries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Parliamentary Approval of Overseas Service) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to provide for parliamentary approval of overseas service by members of the Australian Defence Force; and

  Air Force Act 1923

  and

  Naval Defence Act 1910

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Imported Food Warning Labels Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: requires all imported food and produce to carry a prominently displayed warning label advising consumers that the food has not been grown or processed under Australian health and hygiene standards and may be injurious to human health; and creates offences and imposes penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a framework for the use of reasonable force in specified circumstances by authorised officers within immigration detention facilities; and establish a complaints mechanism relating to the exercise of power to use reasonable force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Country of Origin Food Labelling) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; extend country of origin labelling to all packaged and unpackaged food for retail sale; restrict the range of labelling to three kinds of claim; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BACK, Sen Chris 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: insert new offences in relation to failure to report a visual recording of malicious cruelty to domestic animals, and interference with the conduct of lawful animal enterprises; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum