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TOTAL RESULTS: 340
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- Date
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14 Feb 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997
to increase the upper limit for the charge imposed by regulations for registration applications by migration agents.
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- Date
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14 Feb 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the regulatory scheme for the migration advice industry and migration agents in the
Migration Act 1958
, in relation to investigation of complaints, re-registration and the scope of the scheme. Also contains application provisions.
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- Date
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14 Feb 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance and Administration
- Summary
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Amends the
Ministers of State Act 1952
to increase the limit on the sum appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the payment of salaries of Ministers.
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- Date
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13 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: provide clear legislative intention that compliance with codes of procedure (for making decisions about visa applications, certain visa cancellations and revocations of visa cancellations, and for the conduct of reviews by relevant merits review tribunals) fully satisfies the common law requirements of the natural justice hearing rule. Also contains application provisions.
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- Date
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13 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: allow certain non-citizens to be brought to Australia without a visa for a temporary purpose (a “transitory person”); bar a transitory person from making a visa application whilst in Australia, unless the Minister believes it is in the public interest to do so; allow an assessment of the refugee status of certain transitory persons; stop legal proceedings being taken in relation to the transitory person’s presence in Australia; and provide clear statutory authority for the removal of the person from Australia.
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- Date
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13 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: clarify certain visa related matters (immigration status of non-citizen children born in Australia, security for compliance, bridging visas, special purpose visas and non-citizen student visas); create a Deputy Principal Member position for the Migration Review Tribunal; remove ambiguities surrounding certain offence provisions; and correct a technical error. Also contains application provisions.
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- Date
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13 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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STOTT DESPOJA, Natasha
MURRAY, Andrew
- Summary
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Regulates certain pre and post-retirement conduct of, and places post-retirement employment restrictions on, ministers and ministerial advisers; and includes offence and penalty provisions.
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- Date
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20 Jun 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to expand the definition of “excised offshore place” to include the Coral Sea Islands Territory and certain islands that form part of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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- Date
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26 Jun 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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The bill: appropriates funds out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for payments in accordance with an indemnity agreement between the Commonwealth and Australasian Medical Insurance Limited/United Medical Protection Limited; and confirms the Commonwealth’s commitments under the indemnity agreement.
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- Date
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26 Jun 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Special Minister of State
- Summary
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Establishes uniform arrangements for all Life Gold Pass holders, their spouses and their widows or widowers, including limits on the number of return trips within Australia and forfeiture of travel entitlements linked to the forfeiture of superannuation benefits following a corruption offence conviction.
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