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• Banking Amendment (Banking Code of Conduct) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  to provide for: the minister to make, by legislative instrument, a mandatory Banking Code of Conduct stipulating standards to be complied with by authorised deposit-taking institutions when dealing with their customers; the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to accept and investigate complaints by bank customers and to name banks found to be non-compliant; amendments to the code to be made after consultation; and a three-yearly review of the code. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Livestock Export (Animal Welfare Conditions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  to: provide that live-stock exported for slaughter are transported and slaughtered humanely; make the secretary responsible to ensure that live-stock exported for slaughter under a live-stock export licence are treated humanely and if not, cease their export; and penalise the holder of a live-stock export licence if they fail to inform the secretary of inhumane treatment of live-stock. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CROSSIN, Sen Trish
  BROWN, Sen Carol
  PRATT, Sen Louise
  MARSHALL, Sen Gavin 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: enable same-sex marriages to be recognised; and place no obligation on a minister of religion to solemnise a same-sex marriage. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Small Business—Penalty Rates Exemption) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that businesses in the restaurant and catering or retail industries with fewer than 20 full-time and full-time equivalent employees are only required to pay penalty rates where an employee has worked more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period, or more than 38 hours in a seven-day period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Public Interest Test) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to apply a public interest test to changes in the control of certain media operations on or after 28 June 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Excessive Noise from Wind Farms) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to provide the Clean Energy Regulator with powers to ensure that accredited power stations that are wind farms, either in whole or in part, do not create excessive noise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protecting Local Jobs (Regulating Enterprise Migration Agreements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that enterprise migration agreements are regulated by placing certain requirements on employers and the minister to ensure such agreements are used only where genuinely necessary and do not adversely affect local job opportunities; and require enterprise migration agreements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Integrity Commissioner Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a National Integrity Commission as an independent statutory agency which will consist of the National Integrity Commissioner, the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner and the Independent Parliamentary Advisor and provide for: the investigation and prevention of misconduct and corruption in all Commonwealth departments, agencies, and federal parliamentarians and their staff; the investigation and prevention of corruption in the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission; and independent advice to ministers and parliamentarians on conduct, ethics and matters of proprietary. Also provides for the establishment of a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Integrity Commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Service Requirement) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ROBERT, Stuart, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to ensure that spouses and dependent children of eligible Australian Defence Force (ADF) lateral transfer members (persons who have served in another nation’s armed forces and have migrated to Australia to join the ADF) are eligible for citizenship at the same time as the ADF lateral transfer member. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Knock Register Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GEORGANAS, Steve, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to regulate and minimise unsolicited marketing calls made to Australian residential and government addresses by: establishing a Do Not Knock Register; enabling an address to be included on the register and remain on the register; prohibiting unsolicited marketing calls being made to addresses on the register for a period of three years; providing for a penalty regime; and establishing a complaints regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum