Bill
Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-11-25
- second reading — 2021-11-25
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2022-02-08
- second reading — 2022-02-09
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- third reading — 2022-02-10
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-11-25.
This bill updates several federal laws to support the main Religious Discrimination Bill.
It would give the Australian Human Rights Commission new powers to handle complaints about religious discrimination, including investigating and conciliating them.
A new Religious Discrimination Commissioner would be created as a member of the Commission, with the same authority as existing commissioners.
- Amends the Australian Human Rights Commission Act to let the Commission handle religious discrimination complaints.
- Creates the Religious Discrimination Commissioner as a Commission member.
- Requires the Commission to refer complaints about discriminatory industrial instruments to the Fair Work Commission.
- Allows the Religious Discrimination Commissioner to make submissions to the Fair Work Commission on such instruments.
- Recognises the Religious Discrimination Act as an anti-discrimination law for the Sea Installations Act and the Fair Work Act.
- Provides that civil aviation regulations may override the Religious Discrimination Act for air safety.
People and organisations subject to federal anti-discrimination laws, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Fair Work Commission, and intelligence agencies.
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