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• Corporations Amendment (Financial Advice) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to provide that the term ‘advice’ can only be used when financial advice takes account of a client’s personal financial situation by replacing references to ‘general advice’ with references to ‘general information’; and requiring that when ‘general information’ is provided to a client, the client is warned that the information is not advice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment (Restoring Merits Review) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to restore the right of asylum seekers to access merits review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal if they are subject to an adverse or qualified security assessment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Mining Subsidies Legislation Amendment (Raising Revenue) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fuel Tax Act 2006

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to abolish fossil fuel subsidies for the mining industry from 1 January 2015, including: the diesel fuel rebate; accelerated asset depreciation for aircraft, the oil and gas industry and vehicles; and immediate deductibility for exploration and prospecting expenses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Parliamentary Approval of Overseas Service) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jul 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to provide for parliamentary approval of overseas service by members of the Australian Defence Force; and

  Air Force Act 1923

  and

  Naval Defence Act 1910

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Guardian for Unaccompanied Children Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jul 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes the Office of the Guardian for Unaccompanied Non-citizen Children and provides for the appointment, functions and powers of the guardian, and for staff, consultants and reporting requirements; and amends the

  Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Motor Vehicle Standards (Cheaper Transport) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Jul 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  The bill: sets carbon emissions standards that certain manufacturers, importers or sellers of passenger vehicles and light commercial vehicles are required to meet as the average across its fleet; and provides for charges on sellers whose fleet averages exceed the vehicle carbon emissions standard. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Amendment (A Stronger Land Account) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to: clarify the purpose of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account; provide for excess returns from Land Account investments to be equally shared between the Account and the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC); provide that the minister may have regard to advice provided by the ILC about its financial requirements; provide for parliamentary review of any proposed changes to the ILC and the Land Account; provide for the establishment of a Nomination Committee to make recommendations about appointments to the ILC Board; require the ILC Board to establish a Risk and Audit Management Committee; limit the tenure and reappointments of directors; require the chair and directors to disclose all pecuniary interests; and require the ILC Board to determine a code of conduct. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Approval of Overseas Service) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to provide for parliamentary approval of overseas service by members of the Australian Defence Force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Protecting Babies Born in Australia) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide that a person will have been deemed not to have entered Australia by sea if they entered the migration zone and landed in an aircraft or if the person was born in the migration zone. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Education Amendment (School Funding Guarantee) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHORTEN, Bill, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Education Act 2013

  to require the minister to be satisfied that a state or territory will not reduce or has not reduced its education budget before making a determination of Commonwealth school funding to that state or territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum