Bill
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (Authority Governance and Other Matters) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2018-03-05. Environment and Energy portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment and Energy
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-12-06
- second reading — 2017-12-06
- second reading — 2018-02-08
- second reading — 2018-02-08
- third reading — 2018-02-08
- introduced — 2018-02-08
- second reading — 2018-02-13
- second reading — 2018-02-13
- second reading — 2018-02-13
- third reading — 2018-02-13
- passed — 2018-02-13
- royal assent — 2018-03-05
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 2017-12-06.
The bill would change how the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is run, including its board size and membership rules.
It would replace the full-time chairperson role with a part-time chairperson and a new full-time chief executive officer, who would become the agency's accountable authority.
The changes follow a 2017 government review that found the current governance lacked strategic leadership and that the chairperson's workload was too large for one person.
- Replace the full-time chairperson with a part-time chairperson and a full-time chief executive officer.
- Add one part-time member, increasing the Authority's total membership to seven.
- Strengthen appointment and termination rules by specifying required skills, limiting consecutive terms, allowing termination for underperformance, and reducing conflicts of interest.
- Clarify the relationship between the Authority's governing legislation through a minor technical amendment.
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and its members.
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