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• Galilee Basin (Coal Prohibition) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Prohibits the mining of thermal coal in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KING, Madeleine, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: impose a cap on the total payments that can be made under a consumer lease (known as rent-to-buy schemes); require small amount credit contracts (SACCs) (known as payday loans) to have equal repayments and payment intervals; remove the ability for SACC providers to charge monthly fees in respect of the residual term of a loan where a consumer fully repays the loan early; prevent lessors and credit assistance providers from undertaking door-to-door selling of leases at residential homes; introduce anti-avoidance protections; and increase penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Office for Regional Australia Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes the Office for Regional Australia as a statutory agency to support regional policy development and provides for the appointment, functions and powers of the office; requires the minister to table a statement at least once every five years in relation to the government's regional policy; and provides for the establishment of a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation to provide parliamentary oversight of the office. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Refugee Protection Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes the Asia Pacific Asylum Seeker Solution (APASS) as a regional framework for the Australian Government, in partnership with other countries within the Asia Pacific region, to provide for the protection and processing of asylum seekers and refugees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Reserve Bank Amendment (Australian Reconstruction and Development Board) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Reserve Bank Act 1959

  to: establish the Australian Reconstruction and Development Board, within the Reserve Bank of Australia, to facilitate and manage rural adjustment and financial reconstruction activities; and provide for the functions, membership, meetings and other administrative arrangements of the board. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia's Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the

  Report of the Review of Australia's Sports Integrity Arrangements

  (the Wood review) by amending the:

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  and

  Australian Sports Commission Act 1989

  to abolish the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel; and

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: extend statutory protection against civil actions to national sporting organisations and their staff in the exercise of anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) functions; extend the current protection that allows an entrusted person to resist production of protected information to a court or tribunal to any person in possession of protected information; change the statutory threshold at which the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority CEO may issue a disclosure notice from 'reasonably believes' (that a person has information, documents or things that may be relevant to administration of the national anti-doping scheme) to 'reasonably suspects'; allow a person entitled to inspect or view a document produced pursuant to a disclosure notice to do so only at such times and places as the CEO thinks appropriate; increase the penalty for non-compliance with a disclosure notice from 30 to 60 penalty units; and provide that a person is not excused from complying with the requirement to answer a question, give information or provide a document or thing on the grounds that doing so may incriminate them or expose them to a penalty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Veterans’ Recognition (Putting Veterans and their Families First) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  The bill: provides a general recognition of veterans and their families; sets out the Australian Defence Force Covenant; provides statements that veterans' affairs portfolio legislation will be interpreted with a beneficial intention and that the Commonwealth is committed to working cooperatively with veterans, their families and ex service organisations to address issues facing veterans; and provides that the Commonwealth may issue pins, cards and other artefacts to veterans and their family members. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements a number of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by amending the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: introduce two new offences, and related defences, court rules and protections, for failure to protect a child at risk of a child sexual abuse offence and failure to report child sexual abuse; and introduce a new offence, and related defences and changes to the definition of 'child pornography material', of possessing a doll or other object that resembles a child or part of a child intended to be used by a person to simulate sexual intercourse;

  Customs Act 1901

  to prohibit the import and export of child-like sex dolls and similar objects;

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to allow applications for the emergency authorisation for use of a surveillance device to be made in relation to the new offence of possession of child-like sex dolls or other objects;

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to provide that the new offence of possession of child-like sex dolls or other objects is a serious offence for the purposes of that Act;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: introduce two new offences, and related presumptions and defences, for the possession or control of both 'child pornography material' and 'child abuse material' in the form of data held in a computer or on a data storage device; provide that the existing offence of persistent sexual abuse of a child outside Australia applies to the commission of two or more separate occasions of underlying child sex offences overseas over any period of time; amend the existing definition of 'forced marriage' to explicitly capture all marriages involving children under 16; remove the rebuttable presumption that a person under 16 is presumed to be incapable of understanding the nature and effect of a marriage ceremony; require the Attorney-General's consent to commence proceedings in relation to the offences of causing a person to enter a forced marriage and being a party to a forced marriage; clarify that forced marriage offences involving a child under 16 will automatically attract the aggravated maximum penalty of nine years' imprisonment; and narrow the existing defence to offences involving engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity with a child or young person outside Australia, and procuring or 'grooming' a child for sexual activity outside Australia; and

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  ,

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Act 2019

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Act 2019

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Immediate Destruction of Illicit Tobacco) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to empower the Comptroller-General of Customs to cause tobacco products seized as prohibited imports from 1 July 2019 to be dealt with in a manner he or she considers appropriate, including the immediate destruction of the goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Legislation Amendment (Protecting Dugongs and Turtles) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HINCH, Sen Derryn 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Act 1975

  to require that agreements between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and community groups include consideration of the protection and conservation of dugongs and turtles; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 to: update the rules governing the accreditation and funding process for traditional use of marine resource agreements; and to require traditional owners to describe the methods by which harvesting of protected species is to occur;

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Act 1975

  to increase penalties for aggravated offences in relation to protection of listed marine species; and

  Australian Border Force Act 2015

  ,

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  ,

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  and

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

  to require Commonwealth agencies that are responsible for enforcing offence provisions under environment legislation to report on actions they have taken in respect of dugongs and turtles. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum