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• Judiciary Amendment (Commonwealth Model Litigant Obligations) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Nov 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Judiciary Act 1903

  to: require the Attorney-General to issue directions applying generally to Commonwealth legal work that contain requirements for Commonwealth litigants to act as model litigants (model litigant obligations); and enable a court to order a stay of proceedings or make orders in relation to contraventions of model litigant obligations; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to: require the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate complaints in relation to contraventions of model litigant obligations; and provide for annual reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Executive Remuneration) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Nov 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  to: set a cap on the remuneration of senior executives of Commonwealth entities or companies, inclusive of any performance payments or other bonuses, at five times the full-time adult average weekly earnings of employees of Commonwealth entities or companies; and provide for annual reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle (Facilitation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BERNARDI, Sen Cory 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

  and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to remove prohibitions on the construction or operation of certain nuclear installations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Amendment (Enterprise Incentives) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: provide that, where a bankrupt becomes a bankrupt again, the income contribution obligations and contribution assessment period for the first bankruptcy will cease; provide that ceasing income contributions to a trustee in an earlier bankruptcy in the event of a second bankruptcy does not limit the ability of the trustee in the later bankruptcy to exercise certain powers; amend notification requirements to provide that a bankrupt or discharged bankrupt must notify the trustee within 10 business days of changes to their name, address and phone number during the ‘prescribed period’; clarify the period for which eligible discharged bankrupts must continue to make income contribution payments to the bankrupt estate; extend the requirement to make certain income contribution payments to persons who are eligible to make these payments, but have been automatically discharged after one year; ensure that a bankrupt or discharged bankrupt will ordinarily be liable for income contributions for at least three contribution assessment periods; provide that determinations regarding supervised account regimes apply post discharge and throughout the contribution assessment periods, and only cease when the bankrupt is no longer liable to pay a contribution; extend the obligations and duties on a bankrupt to keep and produce records of income, employment and financial transactions or dealings; provide for an automatic discharge after one year of bankruptcy and related transitional arrangements; and enable the extension of a period of bankruptcy on the basis of an objection by a trustee or official receiver. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Fair and Balanced) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to expand the existing statutory duty of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Board by including the requirement to be ‘fair’ and ‘balanced’ in relation to the gathering and presentation of news and information by the ABC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to: amend the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Charter to require the ABC to broadcast programs that contribute to a sense of regional and national identity, and inform and entertain, and reflect the geographic and cultural diversity of, the Australian community; provide that the ABC Board must have two members with a substantial connection to, or substantial experience in, a regional area through business, industry or community involvement; establish a Regional Advisory Council to advise the ABC Board; and require the ABC Board to report annually on a range of additional matters, including the total number of individuals employed in regional and metropolitan areas, and the journalist to support staff ratio of employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coal-Fired Power Funding Prohibition Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Prohibits the Commonwealth government or its agencies from funding the refurbishment, building or purchase, or assisting in the transfer of ownership, of a coal-fired power station. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Laws Amendment (Strengthening Trustee Arrangements) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2017, the bill amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to require registrable superannuation licensees to have at least one-third independent directors and for the Chair of the Board of directors to be one of these independent directors; and

  Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011

  to enable the trustee board of the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation to comply with the new independence requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Lands Acquisition Amendment (Public Purpose) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Lands Acquisition Act 1989

  to provide that the minister may not make a declaration of acquisition by compulsory process unless the acquisition of the interest is for the direct benefit of the Australian public, or to provide necessary services to members of the Australian public which would not be provided if the acquisition did not occur. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Medicinal Cannabis Legislation Amendment (Securing Patient Access) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide that prohibited goods intended to be used as medicinal cannabis products are, for the purpose of satisfying import conditions, taken to be drugs required for medical purposes; and provide that goods permitted to be supplied for the purposes stated in the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  for the Special Access Scheme Category-B, relating to clinical trials and authorised prescribers, will also be permitted to be supplied for the Special Access Scheme Category-A, relating to seriously ill patients with a condition from which death is reasonably likely to occur within a matter of months; and

  Narcotic Drugs Act 1967

  to allow the secretary to grant a licence to manufacture medicinal cannabis if satisfied it is to be supplied to a seriously ill person in accordance with certain regulatory and notification requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum