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• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 [2011]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  in relation to: the registration process for approved providers; financial penalties; and the publication of certain information;

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to enable the Ombudsman to: provide an independent complaints body for overseas students of private registered providers; provide advice and training to private registered providers to facilitate best practice complaint handling; and review and investigate complaint handling and report on systemic issues; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to enable the Australian Information Commissioner to transfer certain complaints to the Overseas Students Ombudsman. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Evidence Amendment (Journalists’ Privilege) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Evidence Act 1995

  to extend protection to confidential communications between journalists and their sources by: presuming the communication is not subject to disclosure unless established as necessary or that public interest concerns outweigh the disclosure; and extending this privilege to all professional confidential relationships and to all prosecutions for Commonwealth offences heard in all Australian courts; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase the excise duty rate applying to aviation fuel to 3.556 cents per litre from 1 July 2010. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to provide for: specific authorisation requirements for how-to-vote cards; and penalties for contravening the requirements; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to misleading or deceptive electronic advertising publications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to: publishing enrolment and election-related forms and information about places to vote; electronic certified lists of voters; mobile polling; postal voting; eligibility for early voting; and technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  in relation to: evidence of identity for enrolment; the age of provisional enrolment; roll information provided electronically to parliamentarians; electronically copying the roll; purposes for which the roll may be used; and enrolment for people experiencing homelessness. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that: pre-poll votes cast in an elector’s home division can be cast and counted as ordinary votes; the Australian Electoral Commission may process enrolment transactions outside the division for which the person is enrolling; and electors can update their enrolment details electronically; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to restrict the number of candidates that can be endorsed by a political party in each division. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Trade 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Market Development Grants Act 1997

  to: extend the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme to 2015-16; reduce the maximum grant to $150 000; reduce the maximum number of grants available for an individual recipient to seven; cap intellectual property registration expenses at $50 000; increase the minimum expenses threshold to $20 000; increase the income limit for members of approved joint ventures/consortia to $50 million; remove approved trading houses as an eligible special approval applicant category; reinstate disqualifying convictions; enable Austrade to impose conditions on the accreditation of EMDG consultants; and make changes in relation to applications submitted by accredited EMDG consultants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase the excise duty rate applying to tobacco products by 25 per cent from 30 April 2010. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Recreational Fishing for Mako and Porbeagle Sharks) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to provide that it is not an offence to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move longfin mako, shortfin mako and porbeagle sharks in or from Commonwealth waters when that action is taken during recreational fishing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  and

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  to: require all institutions currently registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students to re-register by 31 December 2010; introduce two new registration criteria; require providers to maintain and publish a list of persons/agents who represent them; provide the minister with a discretion to enable a suspended provider to accept monies in certain circumstances; enable national alignment of regulatory actions; and provide for regulations to be made in relation to: providers’ agents, and criteria to be applied when consideration is given to whether a course is a suitable alternative course. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum