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- Date
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27 Feb 2007
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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FIELDING, Sen Steve
- Summary
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Amends the
Qantas Sale Act 1992
to ensure that restrictions about foreign ownership and other matters that apply to Qantas also apply to Jetstar and other Qantas subsidiaries.
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- Date
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25 Aug 2011
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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XENOPHON, Sen Nick
BROWN, Sen Bob
- Summary
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Amends the
Qantas Sale Act 1992
to: require that Qantas’ principal operation centre is located in Australia; require that the majority of heavy maintenance of aircraft, flight operations and Qantas training is conducted in Australia; provide that the Qantas Board of Directors consist of at least one director with professional flight operations experience and one director with aircraft engineering experience; and provide that the minister or certain shareholder members may restrain Qantas from engaging in certain particular conduct.
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- Date
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06 Mar 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Infrastructure and Regional Development
- Summary
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Amends the:
Qantas Sale Act 1992
to: remove mandatory requirements in Qantas’ articles of association which include limits on the issue and ownership of Qantas shares, restrictions on the makeup of the board of directors, the use of the name Qantas, the location of the head office, place of incorporation and principle place of business; and remove compliance and enforcement measures relating to the mandatory requirements; and Air Navigation Act 1920
and Qantas Sale Act 1992
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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12 Sep 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Amends the
Quarantine Act 1908
to allow the minister to appoint a Commissioner to conduct a Commission of inquiry into the outbreak of equine influenza in Australia, and provides that relevant powers and protections in the Royal Commission Act 1902
apply to the inquiry. Also makes consequential amendments to the Archives Act 1983
, Freedom of Information Act 1982
and Privacy Act 1988
.
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- Date
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25 Aug 2011
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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XENOPHON, Sen Nick
- Summary
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Amends the
Quarantine Act 1908
to: provide that Biosecurity Policy Determinations are disallowable legislative instruments; provide that a permit to import, introduce, or bring in an animal, plant, substance or thing is a disallowable legislative instrument; and provide that, when these instruments are presented to Parliament, the minister is required to table a risk analysis in both Houses and refer the instruments to parliamentary committees responsible for agricultural matters.
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- Date
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21 Aug 2003
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Quarantine Act 1908
in relation to: health clearances for incoming overseas vessels; independent medical assessments; vector monitoring and control activities; creation of vector control offence and penalty provisions; insertion and repeal of certain definitions; removal of certain outdated references; clarification that a person can be quarantined on the basis of a quarantine officer’s reasonable suspicion of infection or exposure; and provision that persons released under quarantine surveillance cannot be apprehended. Also contains savings and application provisions.
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- Date
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28 Oct 1997
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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- Date
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19 Mar 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Quarantine Act 1908
to give further effect to the International Health Regulations 2005 by: requiring persons and travellers subject to quarantine to submit themselves to vaccination or other prophylaxis, as necessary, and for the issue of certificates to provide proof of vaccination; and enabling charges to be levied on some travellers for the cost of certain health measures provided for public health reasons. Also makes minor technical and consequential amendments.
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- Date
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03 Dec 1998
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio
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- Date
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14 Mar 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Amends the
Quarantine Act 1908
in relation to: Australia’s national emergency powers in the event of a major national animal disease; compensation for property destroyed and a new offence for commercial smuggling, with increased pecuniary penalties applicable to individuals and corporations.
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