2–5 May 2016
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Bills initiated in the House
The following Bills were initiated:
- Gambling Harm Reduction (Protecting Problem Gamblers and Other Measures) Bill 2016 – introduced 2 May 2016, Private Member's Bill
- High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2016 – introduced 2 May 2016, Private Member's Bill
- Marriage Amendment (Marriage Equality) Bill 2016 – introduced 2 May 2016, Private Member's Bill
- Renew Australia Bill 2016 – introduced 2 May 2016, Private Member's Bill
- Supply (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 2 May 2016, Government Bill
- Supply (No. 2) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 2 May 2016, Government Bill
- Supply (Parliamentary Departments) (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 2 May 2016, Government Bill
- Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2016 – introduced 2 May 2016, Government Bill
- Tax Laws Amendment (Tougher Penalties for Country-by-Country Reporting) Bill 2016 [No. 2] – introduced 2 May 2016, Private Member's Bill
- Appropriation (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 3 May 2016, Government Bill
- Appropriation (No. 2) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 3 May 2016, Government Bill
- Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017 – introduced 3 May 2016, Government Bill
- Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016 – introduced 4 May 2016, Government Bill
- Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016 – introduced 4 May 2016, Government Bill
- Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2016 – introduced 5 May 2016, Government Bill
- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 – introduced 5 May 2016, Government Bill
- National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016 – introduced 5 May 2016, Government Bill
New inquiries of House Committees
No new inquiries were announced.
Reports of House Committees
The following new Committee reports were tabled:
Agriculture and Industry Committee
- Smart farming: Inquiry into agricultural innovation – tabled 4 May 2016
Appropriations and Administration Committee
- Report No. 10: Annual Report 2014-15 – tabled 5 May 2016
- Report No. 11: Budget Estimates 2016–2017 – tabled 5 May 2016
Communications and the Arts Committee
- Arts and the news to rural and regional Australia – tabled 5 May 2016
Environment Committee
- Inquiry into the Register of Environmental Organisations – tabled 4 May 2016
Health Committee
- Inquiry into Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Health Care – tabled 5 May 2016
Indigenous Affairs Committee
- Interim Report: First steps for improving educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students – tabled 4 May 2016
Petitions Committee
- The work of the Petitions Committee: 2013-2016 – tabled 5 May 2016
Procedure Committee
- Division required? Electronic voting in the House of Representatives – tabled 2 May 2016
- Maintenance of the standing orders – tabled 2 May 2016
Selection Committee
- Report No. 41 – tabled 2 May 2016
- Report No. 42 – tabled 4 May 2016
Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee
- Surrogacy Matters: Inquiry into the regulatory and legislative aspects of international and domestic surrogacy arrangements – tabled 4 May 2016
Tax and Revenue Committee
- External scrutiny of the Australian Taxation Office – tabled 5 May 2016
- First Report: 2015 Annual Report of the Australian Taxation Office – tabled 5 May 2016
SENATE
Bills initiated in the Senate
No new Bills were initiated.
New inquiries of Senate Committees
The following new inquiry was announced:
Privileges Committee
Reports of Senate Committees
The following new Committee reports were tabled:
Community Affairs References Committee
- Interim Report: Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients – tabled 4 May 2016
Economics References Committee
- 'A husband is not a retirement plan': Achieving economic security for women in retirement – tabled out of session 29 April 2016
- Interim Report: Non-conforming building products: Safety – 'not a matter of good luck' – tabled 4 May 2016
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Interim Report: Personal choice and community impacts – tabled 4 May 2016
- Interim report: The sale and use of tobacco, tobacco products, nicotine products and e-cigarettes (term of reference a) – tabled 6 May 2016
- Interim Report: Sale and service of alcohol (term of reference b) – tabled 6 May 2016
- Interim Report: Sale and use of marijuana and associated products (term of reference c) – tabled 4 May 2016
- Interim Report: Bicycle helmet laws (term of reference d) – tabled 4 May 2016
- Interim Report: The classification of publications, films and computer games (term of reference e) – tabled 6 May 2016
- Interim Report: Western Sydney Wanderers supporters (term of reference f) – tabled 4 May 2016
- Supplementary Report: Foreign investment review framework – tabled out of session 28 April 2016
Environment and Communications Legislation Committee
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Media Reform) Bill 2016 [Provisions] – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
- Interim Report: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Rural and Regional Advocacy) Bill 2015 – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
Environment and Communications References Committee
- Game on: More than playing around: The future of Australia's video game development industry – tabled out of session 29 April 2016
Establishment of a National Integrity Commission Select Committee
- Interim Report – tabled 3 May 2016
Finance and Public Administration References Committee
- Interim Report: Commonwealth legislative provisions relating to oversight of associated entities of political parties – tabled out of session 29 April 2016
- Final Report: Commonwealth legislative provisions relating to oversight of associated entities of political parties – tabled 4 May 2016
- Outcomes of the 42nd meeting of the Council of Australian Governments held on 1 April 2016 – tabled 4 May 2016
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee
- Delivery and effectiveness of Australia's bilateral aid program in Papua New Guinea – tabled 4 May 2016
- Firefighting foam contamination: Part B – Army Aviation Centre Oakey and other Commonwealth, state and territory sites – tabled 4 May 2016
- Partial suspension of sanctions against Iran – tabled 4 May 2016
Health Select Committee
- Fifth Interim Report: Black Lung: "It has buggered my life" – tabled out of session 28 April 2016
- Final report: Hospital funding cuts: The perfect storm: The demolition of Federal-State health relations 2014–2016 – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
- Sixth Interim Report: Big health data: Australia's big potential – tabled 4 May 2016
Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee
- Establishment of a national registration system for Australian paramedics to improve and ensure patient and community safety – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
- Interim Report: Conditions and treatment of asylum seekers and refugees at the regional processing centres in the Republic of Nauru and Papua New Guinea – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
- Interim Report: Need for a nationally-consistent approach to alcohol-fuelled violence – tabled out of session 5 May 2016
- Interim Report: Payment of cash or other inducements by the Commonwealth of Australia in exchange for the turn back of asylum seeker boats – tabled 4 May 2016
National Broadband Network Select Committee
- Final Report – tabled 4 May 2016
Privileges Committee
- Possible false or misleading evidence given to the former Nauru select committee – tabled 4 May 2016
Regulation and Ordinances Committee
- Delegated legislation monitor – tabled 3 May 2016
- Report on the work of the committee in 2014-15 – tabled 3 May 2016
- Report on the work of the committee in 2013-14 – tabled 3 May 2016
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee
- Decision to commit funding to the Perth Freight Link project – tabled 3 May 2016
- Interim Report: Aspects of road safety in Australia – tabled 3 May 2016
- Interim Report: Effect of market consolidation on the red meat processing sector – tabled 4 May 2016
- Interim Report: Future role and contribution of regional capitals to Australia – tabled 3 May 2016
- Interim Report: Increasing use of so-called Flag of Convenience shipping in Australia – tabled 3 May 2016
Scrutiny of Bills Committee
- Alert Digest No. 5 of 2016 – tabled 3 May 2016
- Fifth Report of 2016 – tabled 3 May 2016
Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures Select Committee
- Second interim report – tabled out of session 29 April 2016
- Third interim report – tabled 3 May 2016
- Fourth interim report – tabled 3 May 2016
Unconventional Gas Mining Select Committee
- Interim report – 4 May 2016
JOINT COMMITTEES
New inquiries of Joint Committees
The following new inquiry was announced:
Treaties Committee
- Treaties tabled on 4 May 2016 – submissions due 20 May 2016
Reports of Joint Committees
The following new Committee reports were tabled:
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity Committee
- Inquiry into the jurisdiction of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity – tabled 5 May 2016
Corporations and Financial Services Committee
- Impairment of Customer Loans – tabled 4 May 2016
- Report on the 2014-2015 annual reports of bodies established under the ASIC – tabled 4 May 2016
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
- A world without the death penalty: Australia's Advocacy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty – tabled 5 May 2016
- Australia's trade and investment relationships with countries of the Middle East – tabled 4 May 2016
- Food for thought: improving health and nutrition in the Indo–Pacific region – tabled 5 May 2016
Human Rights Committee
- Annual report 2013-14 – tabled 3 May 2016
- Thirty-seventh Report of the 44th Parliament – tabled 2 May 2016
- Thirty-eighth Report of the 44th Parliament – tabled 3 May 2016
Migration Committee
- Seasonal change: Inquiry into the Seasonal Worker Programme – tabled 5 May 2016
National Disability Insurance Scheme Committee
- Accommodation for people with disabilities and the NDIS – tabled 5 May 2016
Public Accounts and Audit Committee
- Report 456: Defence Major Equipment Procurement and Evaluation, and Great Barrier Reef Regulation – tabled 5 May 2016
- Report 457: Development of the Commonwealth Performance Framework - Second Report – tabled 5 May 2016
- Report 458 Defence Major Projects Report (2014-15) – tabled 5 May 2016
Public Works Committee
- Report 4/2016 Referrals made February and March 2016 – tabled 3 May 2016
- Report 5/2016 Referral made March 2016 – tabled 3 May 2016
- Report 6/2016 Referral made March 2016 – tabled 3 May 2016
Trade and Investment Growth Select Committee
- Inquiry into Australia's Future in Research and Innovation – tabled 3 May 2016
Treaties Committee
- Report 161: Treaties tabled on 1 December 2015, 3 December 2015 and 2 February 2016 – tabled 4 May 2016
- Report 162: 20th Anniversary Seminar – tabled 4 May 2016
LAWS PASSED
No Bills are awaiting assent by the Governor-General.
The following Bills have now received assent by the Governor-General:
- Australian Crime Commission Amendment (National Policing Information) Bill 2016
- Australian Crime Commission (National Policing Information Charges) Bill 2016
- Financial System Legislation Amendment (Resilience and Collateral Protection) Bill 2016
- Income Tax (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts–Offsets) Bill 2016
- Income Tax Rates Amendment (Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2016
- Medicare Levy Amendment (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2016
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Bill 2016
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016
- Omnibus Repeal Day (Autumn 2015) Bill 2016
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2016
- Supply (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017
- Supply (No. 2) Bill 2016-2017
- Supply (Parliamentary Departments) (No. 1) Bill 2016-2017
- Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016
- Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2016
- Tax Laws Amendment (New Tax System for Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2016
- Tax Laws Amendment (Tax Incentives for Innovation) Bill 2016
- Water Amendment (Review Implementation and Other Measures) Bill 2016
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