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• Paid Parental Leave Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Small Business 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to remove the requirement for employers to provide paid parental leave to eligible employees, unless an employer chooses to manage the payment to employees and the employees agree for the employer to pay them. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to: remove the requirement for a ministerial declaration for a corporation to be eligible to be granted a licence for self-insurance; enable certain corporations to apply to join the Comcare scheme; allow a former Commonwealth authority to apply to be a self-insurer in the Comcare scheme and be granted a group licence if it meets the national employer test; enable group licences to be granted to related corporations; and extend coverage to corporations that are licenced to self-insure;

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to exclude access to workers’ compensation when injuries occur during recess breaks away from an employer’s premises or a person engages in serious and wilful misconduct; and

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• End Cruel Cosmetics Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989

  to prohibit the developing, manufacturing, selling, advertising or importing into Australia of cosmetics, or ingredients in cosmetics, which have been tested on live animals; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australia Fund Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  PALMER, Clive, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australia Fund to: investigate the establishment of an Australia Fund to provide support and reconstruction for rural and manufacturing industries in times of crisis; and review bankruptcy and insolvency laws in relation to businesses in times of crisis; provides for the functions, powers and procedures of the committee; sets the timing for the committee’s report to be tabled; and provides that the committee ceases to exist after it presents its final report. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to enable the Federal Court of Australia to require a corporation to reduce its market share or power within two years where the corporation is found to have misused that market share or power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Flags Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MADIGAN, Sen John
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Flags Act 1953

  to require that all Australian flags flown, used or supplied by the Commonwealth are manufactured in Australia from materials manufactured in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Caring for People on Newstart) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to increase the single rates of Newstart and Youth Allowance by $50 a week; and standardise the indexation arrangements for certain pensions and allowances; and the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that these payments are made from monies appropriated by the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Tasmania) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  URQUHART, Sen Anne 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to require that NBN Co provides fixed connections to the national broadband network in Tasmania only by use of optical fibre to no fewer than 200 000 premises. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade and Foreign Investment (Protecting the Public Interest) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WHISH-WILSON, Sen Peter 

  Summary

  Prevents the Commonwealth from entering into agreements with foreign countries that include investor-state dispute settlement clauses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Reducing Barriers for Minor Parties) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RHIANNON, Sen Lee 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to decrease to $500 and $1000, respectively, the nomination deposit that must be paid by or on behalf of candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum