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• Live Animal Export Prohibition (Ending Cruelty) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  to: prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter on or after 1 July 2020; and provide in the interim that export licence holders ensure all live stock are treated satisfactorily prior to slaughter; and

  Export Control Act 1982

  to: prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter unless the secretary is satisfied that the live-stock will be treated satisfactorily prior to slaughter; and prohibit the export of live-stock for slaughter on or after 1 July 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Land Transport Amendment (Best Practice Rail Investment) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Land Transport Act 2014

  to: include additional matters which the minister must consider when approving a project as an Investment Project; and provide for the publishing and tabling of the project approval instrument for an Investment Project and a summary of the evidence on which the minister’s decision to approve the project is based. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment (Ending the Rorts) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990

  to: require parliamentarians, when claiming travel benefits, to provide details of business undertaken while travelling; provide for an annual audit of parliamentarians’ travel; provide for an audit of all parliamentarians’ travel from 8 September 2013 to date; and require the audit body to report possible offences in relation to the travel claims or benefits. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GALLAGHER, Sen Katy 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Act 2015

  to: allow the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman to provide assistance in advising and preparing a person’s case for a no adverse costs order in proceedings in relation to contraventions of Part IV of the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ; and require the number of requests for assistance in relation to an application for a no adverse costs order to be included in the Ombudsman’s annual report; and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: allow for a no adverse costs order to be sought, at any time during proceedings, by a person bringing an action in relation to loss or damage by conduct of another person that was done in contravention of Part IV of the Act; and specify the circumstances in which the court is able to make a no adverse costs order. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  to: require the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to maintain three domestic shortwave transmission services for the Northern Territory that were operating up until 31 January 2017; and maintain an international shortwave radio transmission service for Papua New Guinea and parts of the Pacific. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Donation Reform and Transparency) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHORTEN, Bill, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: reduce the disclosure threshold to $1000; ensure that, for the purposes of the disclosure threshold and the disclosure of gifts, related political parties are treated as one entity; prohibit the receipt of a gift of foreign property and all anonymous gifts by registered political parties, candidates and members of a Senate group; provide that public funding of election campaigning is limited to declared expenditure incurred by the eligible political party, candidate or Senate group, or the sum payable calculated on the number of first preference votes received where they have satisfied the four per cent threshold, whichever is the lesser; provide for the recovery of gifts of foreign property, anonymous gifts and undisclosed gifts; introduce new offences and penalties; and increase penalties for existing offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Exploitation of Indigenous Culture) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: prohibit the supply in trade or commerce of anything that includes an indigenous cultural expression, unless it is done in accordance with an arrangement with the relevant indigenous community and artist and the thing is made in Australia; and create an offence for the supply of anything that includes an indigenous cultural expression without an arrangement with the relevant indigenous community and artist. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Infrastructure Australia Amendment (Social Sustainability) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCGOWAN, Cathy, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Infrastructure Australia Act 2008

  to require Infrastructure Australia to consider the social and economic needs of rural and regional communities when providing advice on nationally significant infrastructure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Fair Debt Recovery) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to prevent the recovery of a social security or family tax benefit debt from an individual if the debt is being reviewed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Prohibition of Full Face Coverings in Public Places) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to prohibit the wearing of full face coverings in public places under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth if the threat level under the National Terrorism Threat Advisory System is higher than ‘possible’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum