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• Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  OAKESHOTT, Rob, MP 

  Summary

  Responds to the High Court’s decision in

  Plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

  [2011] HCA 32 by amending the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to replace the existing framework for taking offshore entry persons to another country for assessment of their claims to be refugees; and

  Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946

  in relation to the making and implementation of any decision to remove, deport or take a non-citizen child from Australia. The amendments made by this proposed Act have effect only for a period of 12 months. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treaties Ratification Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Provides that the Governor-General must not ratify a treaty unless both Houses of the Parliament have, by resolution, approved the ratification. 

  Bill

• Solar Hot Water Rebate Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BIRMINGHAM, Sen Simon 

  Summary

  Reinstates the remaining portion of the funding allocated to the Solar Hot Water Rebate in the 2011-12 financial year to be applied to expenditure for that purpose. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Dental Services) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DUTTON, Peter, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: specifies actions the minister must take when a dental practitioner who has provided a dental service and claimed a Medicare benefit payment is required to repay the benefit because certain administrative processes have not been undertaken; and requires the minister to table a report in Parliament detailing the actions taken. Also amends the Health Insurance (Dental Services) Determination 2007 to allow for circumstances where a Medicare benefit can be paid where a written quotation was not provided prior to dental treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Solar Hot Water Rebate Bill 2012 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HUNT, Greg, MP 

  Summary

  Reinstates the remaining portion of the funding allocated to the Solar Hot Water Rebate in the 2011-12 financial year to be applied to expenditure for that purpose. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Insurance (Dental Services) Bill 2012 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BUSHBY, Sen David 

  Summary

  The bill: specifies actions the minister must take when a dental practitioner who has provided a dental service and claimed a Medicare benefit payment is required to repay the benefit because certain administrative processes have not been undertaken; and requires the minister to table a report in Parliament detailing the actions taken. Also amends the Health Insurance (Dental Services) Determination 2007 to allow for circumstances where a Medicare benefit can be paid where a written quotation was not provided prior to dental treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Service Requirement) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to ensure that spouses and dependent children of eligible Australian Defence Force (ADF) lateral transfer members (persons who have served in another nation’s armed forces and have migrated to Australia to join the ADF) are eligible for citizenship at the same time as the ADF lateral transfer member. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Knock Register Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to regulate and minimise unsolicited marketing calls made to Australian residential and government addresses by: establishing a Do Not Knock Register; enabling an address to be included on the register and remain on the register; prohibiting unsolicited marketing calls being made to addresses on the register for a period of three years; providing for a penalty regime; and establishing a complaints regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Integrity Commissioner Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Establishes a National Integrity Commission as an independent statutory agency which will consist of the National Integrity Commissioner, the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner and the Independent Parliamentary Advisor and provide for: the investigation and prevention of misconduct and corruption in all Commonwealth departments, agencies, and federal parliamentarians and their staff; the investigation and prevention of corruption in the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission; and independent advice to ministers and parliamentarians on conduct, ethics and matters of proprietary. Also provides for the establishment of a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Integrity Commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protecting Local Jobs (Regulating Enterprise Migration Agreements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that enterprise migration agreements are regulated by placing certain requirements on employers and the minister to ensure such agreements are used only where genuinely necessary and do not adversely affect local job opportunities; and require enterprise migration agreements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum