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23 Nov 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Introduced with the Road Safety Remuneration Bill 2012, the bill amends the
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
to: make a consequential amendment; and enable transitional arrangements.
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23 Nov 2011
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Introduced with the Road Safety Remuneration (Consequential Amendments and Related Provisions) Bill 2012, the bill establishes the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal which will: inquire into sectors, issues and practices within the road transport industry and, where appropriate, determine mandatory minimum rates of pay and related conditions for employed and self-employed drivers; approve collective agreements between a hirer and all self-employed drivers; enable certain contractor drivers and their hirers to collectively bargain and enter into approved collective agreements; resolve disputes between drivers, their hirers or employers and participants in the road transport industry supply chain; and deal with disputes arising from the termination of a road transport contract.
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24 Mar 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Prime Minister
- Summary
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Amends the:
Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973
to: determine a classification structure for departmental secretaries; enable the Remuneration Tribunal to determine the remuneration of the secretaries of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Treasury; enable these secretaries, in consultation with the President of the tribunal and the Public Service Commissioner, to determine the level of remuneration for all other departmental secretaries; and enable the tribunal to determine the remuneration and recreation leave entitlements of the Public Service Commissioner, Merit Protection Commissioner and heads of executive agencies; Public Service Act 1999
and Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973
to make consequential amendments; and Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948
, Parliamentary Superannuation Act 2004
, Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990
and Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973
to: restore the tribunal’s ability to determine parliamentary base salary; require the tribunal to publish reasons for decisions relating to parliamentary remuneration; and remove the Parliament’s ability to disallow parliamentary remuneration determinations.
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- Date
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30 Sep 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the
Radiocommunications Act 1992
in relation to: the commencement timeframe of spectrum licence re-issue processes by the Australian Communications Media Authority; the coexistence of class licences and spectrum licences; certain determinations not being subject to disallowance; and ministerial spectrum access charge directions.
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- Date
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16 Jun 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Summary
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Amends the
Radiocommunications Act 1992
in relation to: the commencement timeframe of spectrum licence re-issue processes by the Australian Communications Media Authority; the coexistence of class licences and spectrum licences; and certain determinations not being subject to disallowance.
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- Date
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13 May 2010
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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FIELDING, Sen Steve
- Summary
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Prohibits the sale of takeaway alcoholic beverages between midnight and 7 am on any day and imposes offences for any contravention.
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- Date
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12 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills, the bill amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Act 2000
to: impose a shortfall charge in relation to surrendering renewable energy certificates created from large-scale renewable energy power generation; and amend the long and short titles of the Act.
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12 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water
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Part of a package of three bills, the bill imposes a shortfall charge in relation to surrendering renewable energy certificates created from installations of small-scale renewable energy technologies.
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12 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills, the bill amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to: separate the Renewable Energy Target scheme into the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target and the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme and create obligations on liable entities; establish an optional clearing house for the transfer of certificates; provide for an enforcement and compliance framework which includes a civil penalty regime; enable corporations to apply for partial exemption certificates; and provide for waste coal mine gas in the renewable energy target. Also contains application and transitional provisions.
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- Date
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24 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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MILNE, Sen Christine
- Summary
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The bill: requires the minister to develop a scheme to support solar hot water systems and heat pump hot water systems by 1 July 2011; requires the minister to ensure the phasing-out of electric resistance water heaters by 30 June 2012; and amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to require that the number of renewable energy certificates (RECs) created by solar hot water systems, heat pump hot water systems and ‘phantom RECs’ must be added to the subsequent year’s renewable energy target.
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