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• Marriage Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  JONES, Stephen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: enable same-sex marriages to be recognised; and place no obligation on a minister of religion to solemnise a same-sex marriage. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP
  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: remove discriminatory references based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and allow marriage regardless of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  OAKESHOTT, Rob, MP 

  Summary

  Responds to the High Court’s decision in

  Plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

  [2011] HCA 32 by amending the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to replace the existing framework for taking offshore entry persons to another country for assessment of their claims to be refugees; and

  Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946

  in relation to the making and implementation of any decision to remove, deport or take a non-citizen child from Australia. The amendments made by this proposed Act have effect only for a period of 12 months. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treaties Ratification Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Provides that the Governor-General must not ratify a treaty unless both Houses of the Parliament have, by resolution, approved the ratification. 

  Bill

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Monitoring of Whaling) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to require: an Australian Commonwealth vessel to monitor the activities of foreign whaling vessels in and around Australia’s Whale Sanctuary; and the minister to report on any such activities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Removal of Mandatory Minimum Penalties) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to remove the mandatory minimum sentence provision from three people smuggling offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Government Investment Funds Amendment (Ethical Investments) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DI NATALE, Sen Richard
  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Future Fund Act 2006

  and

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  to require the ministers responsible for certain funds to develop, by legislative instrument, ethical investment guidelines for each fund (the Future Fund, the Building Australia Fund, the Education Investment Fund and the Health and Hospitals Fund) and direct the Future Fund Board to have regard to the guidelines when making investment policies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to define timeframes and set up evidentiary procedures for age determination and prosecution of non-citizens who are suspected or accused of people smuggling offences under the

  Migration Act 1958

  who may have been minors at the time the offences were allegedly committed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Police Overseas Service (Territories of Papua and New Guinea) Medal Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Requires a minister to seek the Queen’s in-principle agreement to establish The Police Overseas Service (Territories of Papua and New Guinea) Medal as part of the Australian honours system to be awarded for service undertaken by members of Australian police forces who served as part of the Australian administration of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea between 1 July 1949 and 30 November 1973. 

  Bill

• Protecting Children from Junk Food Advertising (Broadcasting and Telecommunications Amendment) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob
  DI NATALE, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: restrict the advertising or other promotion of unhealthy food and beverages on television on weekdays between 6.00 am and 9.00 am and between 4.00 pm and 9.00 pm, and on weekends and public holidays between 6.00 am and 12.00 pm and between 4.00 pm and 9.00 pm; and restrict the advertising or other promotion of unhealthy food and beverages on subscription television, the internet or by electronic message. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum