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• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Donations Reform) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to prohibit political donations from certain industries and from industry representative organisations whose majority members are prohibited donors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide demand-driven funding to diploma, advanced diploma and associate degree courses and extend government subsidies to bachelor and sub-bachelor courses at private universities and non-university higher education providers; remove the maximum student contribution amounts; remove the maximum student contribution amounts that providers can charge students in Commonwealth supported places; merge the FEE-HELP and HECS-HELP loan schemes, including the removal of the FEE-HELP loan fee and lifetime limits, HECS-HELP upfront discount and HELP voluntary repayment bonus; establish a Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme to support disadvantaged students; maintain the CPI indexation rate as the HELP indexation rate; provide for HECS indexation relief for primary carers of children up to five years of age; lower the minimum repayment threshold for HELP debts; enable providers to charge Research Training Scheme students capped tuition fees; remove the lifetime limits on VET FEE-HELP loans and the VET FEE-HELP loan fee; replace the Higher Education Grants Index with the CPI; update the name of the University of Ballarat to Federation University Australia; enable certain New Zealand citizens to be eligible for HELP assistance;

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to provide that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency may determine when fees may be refunded, and disclose certain information;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to discontinue the HECS-HELP benefit;

  Australian National University Act 1991

  ,

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to enable additional investment in research through the Future Fellowships Scheme, apply indexation, apply a one-off efficiency dividend, and add an additional forward estimate amount. Also: amends the Commonwealth Grants Scheme Guidelines 2012, Other Grants Guidelines (Education) 2012 and Other Grants Guidelines (Research) 2012; and repeals the Higher Education (Designated Courses of Study) Specification 2011 and a determination made under subsection 169-20(1) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 [FRLI No. F2007B01092]. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (Improved Oversight and Resourcing) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WRIGHT, Sen Penny 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  to: enable the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor to review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation; require the monitor to consider whether counter-terrorism and national security legislation is a proportionate response to the national security threat faced; enable Legal and Constitutional Affairs Senate committees and the Human Rights Commission to refer matters to the monitor for inquiry; require for all reports of the monitor to be tabled and the government to respond to any recommendations within six months; ensure that the position of monitor is a full time position; establish the Office of the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor as a statutory agency and a listed entity; and provide for staff; and

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to enable the Human Rights Commission to refer matters to the monitor for inquiry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Fair Pay for Members of the ADF) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to link annual wage increases for members of the Australian Defence Force to whichever is the higher of increases in parliamentary allowance or the consumer price index. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sex Discrimination Amendment (Boosting Superannuation for Women) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to provide that discrimination by an employer against a female employee is not unlawful if the discrimination involves the employer making a superannuation contribution that is more than otherwise required by law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Local Content) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to include requirements for the production and dissemination of local content in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Charter. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide for an additional approval requirement for enterprise agreements that are not greenfields agreements; require the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to have regard to a range of non-exhaustive factors to guide its assessment of whether an applicant for a protected action ballot order is genuinely trying to reach an agreement; and provide that the FWC must not make a protected action ballot order when it is satisfied that the claims of an applicant are manifestly excessive or would have a significant adverse impact on workplace productivity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Tax Benefit (Tighter Income Test) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to reduce certain Family Tax Benefit Part A payments by 20 per cent of any income in excess of the ‘income free area’ until the payment reaches zero. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard
  MACDONALD, Sen Ian
  LEYONHJELM, Sen David
  URQUHART, Sen Anne 

  Summary

  Establishes a Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis to be responsible for formulating rules and monitoring compliance with those rules for licensing the production, manufacture, supply, use, experimental use and import and export of medicinal cannabis; and provides for a national system to regulate the cultivation, production and use of medicinal cannabis products, and related activities such as research. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom to Marry Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to provide that: people may marry regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity; registered marriage celebrants are not able to discriminate; religious and non-religious private sector celebrants have freedom of conscience not to solemnise marriages; and chaplains in the defence force may exercise a freedom of conscience while maintaining a positive duty to try to ensure that all couples who seek their services are able to marry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum