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• Fair Work Amendment (Improving National Employment Standards) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to amend the National Employment Standards to enable an employee who experiences family or domestic violence to take up to 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per year or 2 days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave for each permissible occasion. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Streamlines and consolidates existing legislation to create a framework for regulating the export of goods, including agricultural products and food, from Australian territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Charges Imposition) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017, the bill imposes a charge on applications for registration or renewal of registration under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: amend the offence of bribery of a foreign public official to extend the definition of foreign public official to include a candidate for office, remove the requirement that the foreign official must be influenced in the exercise of the official’s duties, replace the requirement that a benefit and business advantage must be ‘not legitimately due’ with the concept of ‘improperly influencing’ a foreign public official, and extend the offence to cover bribery to obtain a personal advantage; and create a new offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; the

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  to implement a Commonwealth Deferred Prosecution Agreement scheme which will enable the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to invite a person that has engaged in serious corporate crime to negotiate an agreement to comply with a range of specified conditions; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Parenting Management Hearings) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: establish the Parenting Management Hearings Panel as an independent statutory authority to provide self-represented litigants with an alternative to the court process for resolving parenting disputes; 11 Acts to make consequential amendments; and various Acts contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2017

  , proposed

  Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Act 2017

  and proposed

  Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2017

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Broadcasters Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Transparency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to require the ABC and SBS to report details of annual salaries and allowances of their employees and amounts paid to ‘on-air talent’, in excess of $200 000. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• 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

• Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that payments made under the Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse are exempt from the income test;

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to ensure that payments made under the Commonwealth redress scheme are quarantined from the divisible property of a bankrupt; and

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1997

  to exempt decisions made under the Commonwealth redress scheme from judicial review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum