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• Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Establishes a resale royalty right for visual artists and an accompanying statutory scheme. The resale royalty right will entitle visual artists to a royalty payment on the sale price of any commercial resale of their original works of art valued over $1,000, be inalienable and endure for the life of the artist plus 70 years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Resale Royalty Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Mar 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUNDY, Sen Kate 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Copyright Act 1968

  to establish a Resale Royalty Scheme for the visual arts which will provide for a collecting society authorised to receive moneys on behalf of artists whose original work is resold through an art market intermediary. 

  Bill

• Republic (Consultation on an Elected President) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jun 1999 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renewable Energy—Electricity (Water Heaters and Phantom Certificates) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renewable Energy Legislation Amendment (Renewable Power Percentage) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALLISON, Lyn 

  Summary

  Amends the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001 to expand interim targets by increasing the renewable energy power percentages from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renewable Energy Amendment (Increased MRET) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEES, Meg 

  Summary

  Increases the mandatory renewable energy target from 2 per cent to 3.5 per cent. 

  Bill

• Renewable Energy Amendment (Increased Mandatory Renewable Energy Target) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to increase the mandatory renewable energy target from 9,500GWh to 45,000GWh and require the minister to review the targets annually. 

  Bill

• Renewable Energy Amendment (Feed-in-Tariff for Electricity) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  OAKESHOTT, Rob, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to establish a national feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme to provide financial support for the commercialisation of prospective renewable energy technologies by providing: that the minister sets and reviews a FiT rate for renewable energy technology and a FiT levy rate to fund payments under the scheme; that qualifying generators be allowed to connect and feed into the grid; that the Renewable Energy Regulator establish a Feed-in-Tariff Register; and for the preparation and tabling of an independent report on the operation of the scheme. 

  Bill

• Renewable Energy Amendment (Feed-in-Tariff for Electricity) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to establish a national feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme to provide financial support for the commercialisation of prospective renewable energy technologies by providing: that the minister sets and reviews a FiT rate for renewable energy technology and a FiT levy rate to fund payments under the scheme; that qualifying generators be allowed to connect and feed into the grid; that the Renewable Energy Regulator establish a Feed-in-Tariff Register; and for the preparation and tabling of an independent report on the operation of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Renewable Energy (Food Processing Activities) Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BOSWELL, Sen Ron 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

  to require regulations to be made to determine that food processing activities, to the extent that they are trade exposed, be given a 90 per cent partial exemption from the additional renewable source electricity acquisition obligation for 2010 and later years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum