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• 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

• COAG Reform Fund Amendment (No Electric Vehicle Taxes) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to establish a new condition on financial assistance provided by the Commonwealth government to neutralise the revenue effect of taxes and charges imposed by states and territories on the purchase and use of electric vehicles; and

  Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Act 2015

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Ten Days Paid Domestic and Family Violence Leave) Bill 2020 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCALLISTER, Sen Jenny 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide for ten days paid domestic and family violence leave in a 12-month period; provide for employees to access paid domestic and family violence leave at their base pay rate for usual hours of work in the period the leave was taken; enable an employee and employer to agree additional paid or unpaid leave can be taken in addition to the 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave; clarify and expand the reasons for which a person can take paid domestic and family violence leave; and strengthen the privacy obligations placed on employers in relation to an employee who takes paid family and domestic violence leave. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Uyghur Forced Labour) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PATRICK, Sen Rex 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to prohibit the importation into Australia of goods from Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China as well as goods from other parts of China that are produced by using forced labour. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Benefit to Australia) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to broaden the objects clause of the Act to require the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator and the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority to take into account the benefit to the Australian community when granting new leases or renewing existing leases. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum