In the media
NSW introduces landmark Climate Change Bill to set
emissions reduction target
The Minns Labor government has introduced its landmark
Climate Change Bill, to enshrine emissions reduction targets law in
NSW and establish an independent Net Zero Commission. The Climate
Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023 commits NSW to cutting
greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030 and reaching net
zero by 2050 (12 October 2023). Read more here.
NSW premier defends collection of unpaid quarantine
hotel fee from people's bank account
The New South Wales Premier has defended the state's
revenue collecting agency withdrawing millions in unpaid hotel
quarantine fees from people's bank accounts. Revenue NSW is
still chasing the $3,000 fee from more than 17,000 people who have
not paid and issued more than 5,000 garnishee orders to
debtors' bank accounts to reclaim the almost $40 million in
outstanding hotel quarantine fees (8 October 2023). Read more here.
Gay conversion therapy ban bill to be brought forward in
NSW after claims reform was put 'on ice'
The New South Wales government says it will bring forward
its promised laws banning gay conversion practices, days after a
religious lobby group claimed to have helped put the reforms
"on pause". It was previously expected that the
government's bill would not be introduced until 2024. However,
last week, the Australian Christian Lobby claimed in a newsletter
that their strong pushback and put the proposed laws "on
ice", prompting three groups representing conversion practice
survivors to write to the Attorney-General. The Minns Government is
drafting its own legislation and says it has been consulting with
130 stakeholders (6 October 2023). Read more here.
Tasering, beanbag-round deaths spark calls for changes
to mental health responses in NSW
The New South Wales government is being urged to change
how agencies respond to vulnerable people after recent deaths
following interactions with police. Redfern Legal Centre senior
solicitor Sam Lee said it had become clear that police should not
be the first to respond to such incidents and instead, mental
health professionals should be the first to respond to welfare and
community treatment order checks (5 October 2023). Read more here.
In practice and courts
Reissued Practice Note SC EQ 04 – Corporations
List
The Chief Justice has reissued Practice Note SC EQ 4
– Corporations List, with a commencement date of 18 October
2023. This Practice Note relates to the structure and operation of
the Corporations List in the Equity Division with the aim of
achieving a speedy resolution of the real issues in the proceedings
(13 October 2023). Read the Practice Note here.
Who Decides? What Should be Local and What Should Be
National in Judicial Review – High Court of Australia Public
Lecture 8 November 2023
The Honourable Chief Justice Gageler AC will be
introducing the Hon. Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge, United State
Court of Appeals, to discuss the "one question [that]
dominates every other in American history: What should be national
and what should be local?" The lecture, on 8 November 2023 at
6pm, will consider some areas of American constitutional law and
the ways in which the American and Australian constitutional
traditions are similar and different. View the notice here.
Publications
NSW government acts on First Safety Report – bus
safety recommendations
The NSW Bus Taskforce has released its First Safety
Report, with all five recommendations accepted in principle by the
Government. This report addresses the expanded Terms of Reference
for the Bus Industry Task Force and responds to the Minister's
request for early findings in regard to the retrofitting of
seatbelts on school buses (13 October 2023). Read the media release
here. Read the First Safety Report (July 2023)
here.
Towards a National Jobs and Skills Roadmap – Jobs
and Skills Australia
The inaugural Jobs and Skills Report 2023 provides an
initial assessment of the national skills system and
Australia's current, emerging, and future skills needs (4
October 2023). Read the Report
here.
Cases
Home789 Resources Pty Ltd & others v Chief
Commissioner of State Revenue [2023] NSWCATAD 263
REVENUE – Payroll tax – Grouping of employers –
business groups – real estate industry – discretion in
Chief Commissioner to "de-group": Payroll Tax Act 2007,
section 79 – whether discretion properly exercised.
REVENUE – Payroll tax – taxable wages – where
each recipient had a connection with member or members of
group-whether each recipient an employee – whether payments
taxable wages for purposes of the Payroll Tax Act 2007, Part 2,
Division 2 – whether payments exempt – proper
identification of persons under consideration – whether
person under consideration ordinarily performs services of that
kind to the public generally in relevant financial year.
Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW): sections 9, 58, 63;
Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW): sections 28, 55;
Payroll Tax Act 2007 (NSW): sections 6, 7, 10, 11, 13; Part 3
Division 7; sections 32, 34, 35, 70, 71, 72, 74, 79.
Taxation Administration Act 1996 (NSW): sections 96,100.
Kelly v University of New South Wales
[2023] NSWCATAD 262
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW – Privacy – application for
summary dismissal – frivolous or vexatious or otherwise
misconceived or lacking in substance – dismissal application
refused.
Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013; Privacy and Personal
Information Protection Act 1998.
Reid v Woollahra Municipal Council [2023]
NSWLEC 1611
NOTICE OF MOTION – application to amend a development
application – whether same power in cl 55 of EPA Regulation 2000 as ss 37 and 38 of the EPA Regulation 2021 – the
Court's powers on appeal – whether amendments constitute
a fresh application – scope of power to amend – change
of specified purpose.
Civil Procedure Act 2005, s 26; Environmental Planning and
Assessment Act 1979, ss 1.5, 4.12, 4.19, 8.7, 8.11, 8.14;
Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000, cl 55;
Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021, ss 37, 38;
Interpretation Act 1987, s 33; Land and Environment Court Act 1979,
ss 17, 39; Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 2015.
Pearce v Commissioner for Fair Trading
[2023] NSWCATOD 149
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW – disciplinary action – licencing
– criminal offences – failure to disclose all past
offence – assault on neighbour while performing building
works – whether guilty of improper conduct – whether a
fit and proper person.
Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997; Civil and Administrative
Tribunal Act 2013; Home Building Act 1989.
Charles v SafeWork NSW [2023] NSWCATAD
259
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – administrative review – government
information – confidential information – personal
information – secrecy provision – effective exercise of
agency's functions – whether overriding public interest
against disclosure.
Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW); Government
Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW); Privacy and Personal
Information Protection Act 2022 (NSW); Work Health and Safety Act
2011 (NSW).
Cumberland Council v FMH [2023] NSWCATAP
274
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW – Privacy and Personal Information
Protection Act 1998 (NSW) – IPPs 5, 10, 11 and 12 –
Health Record Information Protection Act 2002 (NSW) – HPPs 4,
5, 10 and 11 – whether s 25(b) of the PPIP Act applied and
exempted compliance with the relevant IPPs and HPPs – whether
information was unsolicited for the purposes of IPPs 10, 11 and
HPPs 10 and 11.
APPEALS – whether the Appellant was denied procedural
fairness.
Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW); Health Record
Information Protection Act 2002 (NSW); Privacy and Personal
Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW).
GR
v Secretary, Department of Communities and Justice [2023]
NSWCA 239
APPEALS – ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – judicial review –
denial of procedural fairness – appeal against interlocutory
decision of Appeal Panel of Civil and Administrative Tribunal
against decision of Tribunal refusing application to be joined to
guardianship proceedings concerning applicant's child –
failure to adjourn directions hearing at which joinder application
was determined because applicant was unavailable – denial of
procedural fairness because applicant was therefore not a party to
the guardianship application and was not served with material
before the Tribunal, had no opportunity to adduce evidence and no
right of appeal against substantive guardianship or financial
management orders.
APPEALS – PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for
leave to appeal against summary dismissal of Supreme Court
proceedings – whether applicant already had statutory right
of appeal – overlap in relief claimed – whether there
was a triable issue.
Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW), ss
69, 79, 91; Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW), ss 5,
36, 38, 44, 55, 83, Sch 6 cll 6, 7, 12, 14; Guardianship Act 1987
(NSW), ss 7, 16, 18, 25; Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), ss 48, 49,
69, 75A, 101; Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 13.4,
14.28, 36.2.
Randwick City Council v Belle Living Pty Ltd
(No 2) [2023] NSWLEC 100
CIVIL ENFORCEMENT – complying development certificate –
development control order – whether complying development
– construction of "draft heritage item" in State
Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development
Codes) 2008 (NSW).
JUDICIAL REVIEW – planning proposal – gateway
determination – unreasonableness and issue estoppel –
whether conditions of gateway determination complied with –
mandatory public exhibition period – community consultation
– substantial or strict compliance with conditions of gateway
determination – alleged invalidity of cl 1.5 of State
Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development
Codes) 2008 (NSW).
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) ss 4.2, 4.25,
4.31, 9.34, 9.37; Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation
2021 (NSW) s 134; Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) ss 25, 30; Interpretation
Act 1987 (NSW) s 33; Randwick Local Environment Plan 2012 Sch 5;
State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying
Development Codes) 2008 (NSW) cll 1.5, 1.17A, 1.18, 2.25, 2.51.
Macatangay v State of New South Wales
[2023] NSWCA 238
PRACTICE – vexatious litigant – whether making
vexatious proceedings order without separate oral hearing
contravened statute – whether proceedings vexatious –
where matter sought to be relitigated had previously been
determined on a final basis from which an appeal was dismissed
– application dismissed.
Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW), s 87; Vexatious Proceedings
Act 2008 (NSW), ss 4, 8(3), 9, 13, 14, 15(2).
New South Wales Nurses and Midwives'
Association v Mid North Coast Local Health District (WHS Right of
Entry Dispute) [2023] NSWIRComm 1099
EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL LAW – WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY
– rights of WHS entry permit holders to inspect and make
copies of documents pursuant to ss 118(1)(d) and 120(2) –
orders sought pursuant to s 142(3) of the Work Health and Safety
Act 2011 (NSW) for the production of documents – whether WHS
entry permit holders reasonably suspected that a contravention of
the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) had occurred or was
occurring and whether they entered the workplace for the purpose of
inquiring into a suspected contravention – effect of failure
to comply with notice requirements stipulated in ss 120(3) and
120(4) and reg 29 of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2017
(NSW) – extent of particulars of contravention required in a
Notice of Entry – relevant PCBU not required to create
bespoke documents in order to comply with ss 118(1)(d) or 120(2)
– whether documents sought under s 118(1) (d) were kept at,
or were accessible from a computer that is kept at, the workplace
– Where disclosure of documents could contravene the Privacy
and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) and/or the
Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW) –
whether documents requested were directly relevant to a suspected
contravention – whether the Commission should exercise its
discretion and not make orders requiring production of documents
– limited orders for production made.
Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), ss 494, 501, 502, 518; Health Records and
Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW), s 6, Sch 11, Item 11;
Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW), s 163; Interpretation Act 1987
(NSW), s 3(3) and Sch 4; Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), s 6; Privacy and
Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW), ss 3(1), 4, 18, 25;
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) ss 3, 4, 8,17,19,117 –
147; Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld); Work Health and Safety
Regulation 2017 (NSW), regs 27, 28 and 29; Work Health and Safety
Regulations 2011 (Qld), reg 27.
Secretary of the Department of Education v
Williams [2023] NSWIRComm 1098
EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL LAW – Industrial Relations
Commission – appeals – whether order of Commissioner at
first instance requiring person's name to be removed from
"not to be employed list" was beyond power –
whether Commissioner erred in finding that allegation of misconduct
could not be sustained – whether matters arising on appeal
warranted the grant of leave.
Government and Related Employees Appeals Tribunal Act 1980 Pt 3 Div
2, ss 24, 48; Industrial Relations Act 1996 Pt 7 Div 3, ss 91, 97,
98, 100C, 100D, 164A, 188, 191; Teaching Service Act 1980 ss 5A, 7,
44, Pt 4A, ss 93B, 93F.
SafeWork NSW v Denbrok Constructions Pty
Limited [2023] NSWDC 407
CRIMINAL LAW – prosecution – work health and safety
– duty of persons undertaking business – risk of death
or serious injury – maximum penalty.
SENTENCE – objective seriousness – mitigating factors
– aggravating factors – plea of guilty –
appropriate discount for the utility of the plea – general
deterrence – specific deterrence – remorse and
contrition – maximum penalties.
COSTS – prosecutor's costs – capacity to pay.
Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW); Criminal Procedure
Act 1986 (NSW); Fines Act 1996 (NSW); Work Health and Safety Act
2011 (NSW).
Riva NSW Pty Limited v Official Trustee in
Bankruptcy [2023] NSWCA 235
APPEAL – special federal matters – exclusive
jurisdiction of federal courts – whether appeal involved a
matter "arising under" a Scheduled Commonwealth Act
– appeal arising under Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW) -
Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 (Cth), s 7(5) not
engaged.
APPEAL – application for leave to appeal – failure to
allow opportunity to replead – whether applicants had
frequently instituted vexatious proceedings – whether error
on part of primary judge that was more than merely arguable –
whether issue of general principle – whether clear case of
injustice.
Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 (Cth), s 7; Civil
Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), Pt 6; Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s
101; Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW), ss 8, 13, 14.
Ku-ring-gai Council v Safwen Hijazi [2023]
NSWLEC 102
CIVIL ENFORCEMENT – on 31 March 2021, the Applicant serves a
clean-up order on an owner of a property – clean-up order
results from police notification that premises were used as a
clandestine drug laboratory – owner of the property required
to effect clean-up by 15 April 2021 – no appeal against the
terms of the order – the owner has not carried out the
mandated clean-up operation as required by the order – Class
4 civil enforcement proceedings commenced against the owner of the
property (First Respondent) seeking court orders for compliance
with the clean-up requirements – co-owner of the property
joined as Second Respondent – relief sought by the Applicant
amended to encompass both owners of the property – no
appearance by either respondent at the hearing – Applicant
proves service of Amended Summons, Court Book and Evidence Book on
each respondent – evidence establishes proper basis for
making original order against the First Respondent – evidence
establishes that the clean-up order has not been complied with by
the First Respondent – no clean-up order served on the Second
Respondent – absence of clean-up order being served on the
Second Respondent removes basis for making orders against the
Second Respondent – failure to comply with the clean-up order
by the First Respondent and the evidentiary basis founding that
order (with the continuing failure to comply with it) provides a
proper basis to make the declaration and orders sought by the
Applicant against the First Respondent – declaration and
orders made against the First Respondent – Amended Summons
dismissed to the extent it sought orders against the Second
Respondent.
COSTS – costs ordinarily follow the event in Class 4
proceedings – no valid basis upon which the Second Respondent
was joined to the proceedings and orders sought against him –
appropriate to exclude costs of joinder application and amendment
to the summons from the costs order to be made against the First
Respondent – no costs order to be made against Second
Respondent – First Respondent ordered to pay the
Applicant's costs (other than the costs associated with the
application for joinder of the Second Respondent and the
application to rely on the Amended Summons seeking orders including
orders against the Second Respondent) as agreed or assessed.
Local Government Act 1993, s 124.
JS Architects Pty Ltd v City of Parramatta
Council [2023] NSWLEC 1578
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION – multi dwelling housing development
– flooding.
Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016; Environmental Planning and
Assessment Act 1979, ss 4.15, 8.7; Land and Environment Court Act
1979, s 39; Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2011, cll 2.3, 4.4,
4.6; Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023, cl 1.8A; Standard
Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Order 2006; State
Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021, ss 16,17,19, Pt 2;
State Environmental Planning Policy (Resilience and Hazards) 2021,
Ch 4, s 4.6; State Environmental Planning Policy; (Transport and
Infrastructure) 2021, s 2.98.
Randwick City Council v Belle Living Pty Ltd
(No 2) [2023] NSWLEC 100
CIVIL ENFORCEMENT – complying development certificate –
development control order – whether complying development
– construction of "draft heritage item" in State
Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development
Codes) 2008 (NSW).
JUDICIAL REVIEW – planning proposal – gateway
determination – unreasonableness and issue estoppel –
whether conditions of gateway determination complied with –
mandatory public exhibition period – community consultation
– substantial or strict compliance with conditions of gateway
determination – alleged invalidity of cl 1.5 of State
Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development
Codes) 2008 (NSW).
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) ss 4.2, 4.25,
4.31, 9.34, 9.37; Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation
2021 (NSW) s 134; Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) ss 25, 30; Interpretation
Act 1987 (NSW) s 33; Randwick Local Environment Plan 2012 Sch 5;
State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying
Development Codes) 2008 (NSW) cll 1.5, 1.17A, 1.18, 2.25, 2.51.
Legislation
Acts Compilation
Income Tax Assessment 1997 16/10/2023 –
Act No. 38 of 1997 as amended
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 16/10/2023
– Act No. 133 of 2013 as amended
National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022
16/10/2023 – Act No. 88 of 2022 as amended
Aged Care Act 1997 16/10/2023 – Act No.
112 of 1997 as amended
Taxation Administration Act 1953 14/10/2023
– Act No. 1 of 1953 as amended
Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
14/10/2023 – Act No. 78 of 1993 as amended
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act
1999 14/10/2023 – Act No. 55 of 1999 as amended
National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
12/10/2023 – Act No. 134 of 2009 as amended
Freedom of Information Act 1982 12/10/2023
– Act No. 3 of 1982 as amended
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act
1986 12/10/2023 – Act No. 101 of 1986 as amended
Surveillance Devices Act 2004 12/10/2023
– Act No. 152 of 2004 as amended
Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act
1979 11/10/2023 – Act No. 114 of 1979 as amended
Privacy Act 1988 10/10/2023 – Act No. 119
of 1988 as amended
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 10/10/2023
– Act No. 51 of 1974 as amended
Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
10/10/2023 – Act No. 78 of 1993 as amended
Ombudsman Act 1976 10/10/2023 – Act No.
181 of 1976 as amended
Social Security Act 1991 10/10/2023 – Act
No. 46 of 1991 as amended
Customs Tariff Act 1995 9/10/2023 – Act
No. 147 of 1995 as amended
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act
1979 9/10/2023 – Act No. 113 of 1979 as amended
Customs Act 1901 9/10/2023 – Act No. 6 of
1901 as amended
Taxation Administration Act 1953 7/10/2023
– Act No. 1 of 1953 as amended
Health Insurance Act 1973 7/10/2023 – Act
No. 42 as amended
Insurance Act 1973 7/10/2023 – Act No. 76
of 1973 as amended
Freedom of Information Act 1982 7/10/2023
– Act No. 3 of 1982 as amended
Criminal Code Act 1995 7/10/2023 – Act
No. 12 of 1995 as amended
Archives Act 1983 7/10/2023 – Act No. 79
of 1983 as amended
Royal Commissions Act 1902 7/10/2023 –
Act No. 79 of 1983 as amended
Crimes Act 1914 6/10/2023 – Act No. 12 of
1914 as amended
Intelligence Services Act 2001 6/10/2023
– Act No. 152 of 2001 as amended
Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act
2012 6/10/2023 – Act No. 132 of 2012 as amended
Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
6/10/2023 – Act N. 125 of 1986 as amended
National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional
and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009 6/10/2023 – Act
No. 135 of 2009 as amended
Corporations Act 2001 6/10/2023 – Act No.
50 of 2001 as amended
Office of National Intelligence Act 2018
6/10/2023 – Act No. 155 of 2018 as amended
Taxation Administration Act 1953 4/10/2023
– Act No. 1 of 1953 as amended
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 4/10/2023
– Act No. 137 of 2011 as amended
National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022
4/10/2023 – Act No. 88 of 2022 as amended
Life Insurance Act 1995 4/10/2023 – Act
No. 4 of 1995 as amended
Regulations and miscellaneous instruments
Border Fence Maintenance Amendment Regulation
2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Conveyancing (General) Amendment (Miscellaneous)
Regulation 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Radiation Control Amendment Regulation 2023
– published LW 13 October 2023
Environmental Planning instruments
Cessnock Local Environment Plan 2011 (Amendment
No 40) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Georges River Local Environment Plan 2021 (Map
Amendment No 2) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Kyogle Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Map
Amendment No 2) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023 (Map
Amendment No 3) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Parramatta Local Environmental Plan (Transport
and Infrastructure) (Map Amendment No 3) 2023 – published LW
13 October 2023
Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Map
Amendment No 4) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment
No 96) 2023 – published LW 13 October 2023
Passed by both Houses
Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2023
– passed 12 October 2023
State Insurance and Care Governance Amendment
(ICNSW Governance) Bill 2023 – passed 12 October
2023
Radiation Control Amendment Bill 2023 –
passed 11 October 2023
Paintball Amendment Bill 2023 – passed
11 October 2023
Motor Dealers and Repairers Amendment Bill
2023 – passed 11 October 2023
Mining Amendment (Mineral Claims – Opal)
Bill 2023 – passed 11 October 2023
Criminal Procedure Amendment (Child Sexual Offence
Evidence) Bill 2023 – passed 12 October 2023
Bills introduced by Government
Building Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
– introduced LC 12 October 2023
Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust Amendment
(Car Parking) Bill 2023 – introduced LA 10 October
2023
Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023
– introduced LC 12 October 2023
Defamation Amendment Bill 2023 –
introduced LA 11 October 2023
Emergency Services Legislation Amendment Bill
2023 – introduced LA 11 October 2023
Justice Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill
2023 – introduced LA 10 October 2023
Revenue, Mining and Energy Legislation Amendment
Bill 2023 – introduced LA 11 October 2023
Strata Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 –
introduced LC 12 October 2023
Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation
(Authorised Transaction) Amendment Bill 2023 – introduced
LA 11 October 2023
Non-government
Independent Commission Against Corruption
Amendment (Ministerial Diary Disclosure) Bill 2023 –
introduced LA 12 October 2023
Surveillance Devices Amendment (Public Interest
Exemptions) Bill 2023 – introduced LC 11 October
2023
Water Management Amendment (Water Access Licence
Register) Bill 2023 – introduced LA 12 October 2023
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