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• Fair Work Amendment (Better Work/Life Balance) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide employees with enforceable rights to request flexible working arrangements; and provide the Fair Work Commission with the power to make flexible working arrangements orders. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Tackling Job Insecurity) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide a process for an employee who is a casual or rolling contract employee to request to move to ongoing employment on a part-time or full-time basis; and provide the Fair Work Commission with the power to make a secure employment order. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Support Amendment (National Regional Higher Education Strategy) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: require the minister to develop a National Regional Higher Education Strategy; and revise the strategy every four years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Air Services Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Air Services Act 1995

  to: provide that the functions of Airservices Australia (AA) include undertaking activities to protect the human and natural environment, community amenity and residential areas from the effects of the operation and use of aircraft, and associated effects; introduce new consultation arrangements for AA and persons affected by aircraft noise; require AA to consider the need to minimise the impact of aircraft operations on the human and natural environment, community amenity and residential areas when preparing corporate plans; expand the AA board by up to two members and require that it include an expert in environmental management and a representative of a community group affected by aircraft noise; and provide for the creation and operations of the Aircraft Noise Ombudsman and related reporting arrangements; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to require the minister to appoint an independent Community Aviation Advocate to represent communities affected by aircraft noise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Comprehensive Credit Reporting) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: establish a mandatory comprehensive credit reporting regime to apply from 1 July 2018; and expand the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s powers so it can monitor compliance with the regime; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to impose additional requirements as to where and how data held by a credit reporting body must be stored. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to: enable the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to recover the costs of its oversight of well operations under greenhouse gas titles by imposing a well investigation levy, an annual well levy and a well activity levy in relation to greenhouse gas wells; impose the well activity levy on submission of a five-yearly revision of a well operations management plan and remove the levy imposed on applications for approval to commence well activities; clarify that it is a compliance investigation under the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  in relation to which a safety investigation levy or well investigation levy may be imposed; and remove certain spent provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: transfer regulatory responsibility for offshore greenhouse gas wells and environmental management from the minister to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA); strengthen and clarify the powers of NOPSEMA inspectors to monitor and enforce compliance by regulated entities with their obligations under the Act and associated regulations; ensure valid designation of certain areas as ‘frontier areas’ for the purposes of the Designated Frontier Area tax incentive; and make minor policy and technical amendments in relation to the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code and Other Legislation Amendment (Removing Commonwealth Restrictions on Cannabis) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEYONHJELM, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends five Acts and the Criminal Code Regulations 2002 to remove barriers in Commonwealth legislation to the legalisation and regulation of cannabis for recreational, medicinal, industrial and other purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Sovereign Naval Shipbuilding) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to provide that the Commonwealth may only enter into an agreement with an entity for the building of certain vessels for use by the Royal Australian Navy if the vessel is to be constructed in Australia by an Australian shipbuilder. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to remove the goods and services tax from sanitary products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum