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• Ransomware Payments Bill 2021 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KENEALLY, Sen Kristina 

  Summary

  Establishes a mandatory requirement for Commonwealth, state or territory entities, corporations and partnerships to report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre ransomware payments paid in response to a ransomware attack. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Targeted Sanctions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  The bill: provides for either House of Parliament, or certain parliamentary committees, to request the minister to table a statement on whether autonomous sanctions will be applied to persons that are responsible for serious human rights abuses or corruption; requires the minister to table in both Houses a statement on whether autonomous sanctions will be applied to certain persons responsible for the coup in Myanmar in 2021; and provides for a review of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CHRISTENSEN, George, MP 

  Summary

  Creates duties for health practitioners to provide medical care or treatment to children born alive as a result of terminations and to report births of children born alive as a result of terminations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Improving Paid Parental Leave for Parents of Stillborn Babies) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KENEALLY, Sen Kristina 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure that parents of stillborn babies can access the same employer-paid paid parental leave that they would be entitled to regardless of whether the pregnancy ended in a stillbirth or a live birth. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCMAHON, Sen Sam 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978

  to remove limits on the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly's powers to make laws in relation to the acquisition of property other than on just terms, voluntary assisted dying and the conferring of powers relating to the hearing and determining of employment disputes. Also repeals the

  Euthanasia Laws Act 1997

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Improved Grants Reporting) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GALLAGHER, Sen Katy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  to provide for reporting and tabling requirements for certain grants which have been approved by a minister based on an application which an official has recommended should be rejected or does not meet relevant selection criteria or which have been approved by a minister, who is a member of the House of Representatives, for a grantee in their electorate. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Human Rights and Corruption (Magnitsky Sanctions) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KITCHING, Sen Kimberley 

  Summary

  Based on the precedents of the

  Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 2016

  (US) and the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill 2018 (UK), the bill provides the minister with the discretion to impose certain sanctions for the purposes of compliance with United Nations obligations or other international obligations, or for the purposes of preventing or responding to gross human rights abuse or violations, or acts of significant corruption. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Forced Labour) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to prohibit the importation into Australia of goods that are produced in whole or in part by forced labour. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package Amendment (Ending Jobkeeper Profiteering) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to: delay businesses with an annual turnover of more than $50 million from claiming GST credits for ten years, or until they pay back the amount of Jobkeeper payment they received equal to the amount of profits made and/or executive bonuses paid during the financial year in which the entity received the payment; and require the Australian Taxation Office to publish a list of all entities with an annual turnover of more than $50 million in receipt of Jobkeeper payments and how much each entity received. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• No Domestic COVID Vaccine Passports Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KELLY, Craig, MP 

  Summary

  Prohibits: Commonwealth, state and territory governments and other non-government entities from issuing domestic COVID-19 vaccine passports; and discrimination on the basis of whether a person has had a COVID 19 vaccination in the provision of goods, services and facilities; and in relation to employment, education, accommodation and sport. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum