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• 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

• 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

• Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Establishes an inquiry into whether Christian Porter is a fit and proper person to be a Minister of State. 

  Bill

• Biosecurity Amendment (No Crime to Return Home) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Emergency Requirements—High Risk Country Travel Pause) Determination 2021

  ; and amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to prevent the Minister for Health from making a determination or giving a direction that prevents or restricts an Australian citizen or permanent resident outside Australia from returning to Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Transparency and Cost Recovery) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: establish the statutory authority for the publication of information in relation to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, including meeting agendas, meeting outcomes, public summary documents and information published on the Medicine Status Website; and provide for cost recovery arrangements, including specifying fees for services and costs incurred to be set out in a disallowable legislative instrument, replacing the existing regulations; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum