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23 Mar 2011
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Introduced with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011, the bill amends the:
Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000
to provide that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and its staff undertake functions relating to provider registration and monitoring; Higher Education Support Act 2003
to recognise new registration requirements for higher education providers and the TEQSA; and proposed Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011
to update the definition of ‘vocational education and training course’. Also provides for the transition of functions from state and territories authorities to the TEQSA.
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23 Mar 2011
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Introduced with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, the bill establishes the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency as an independent national regulatory and quality assurance agency for higher education.
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29 Sep 2010
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BROWN, Sen Bob
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Amends the:
Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988
to remove the Governor-General’s power to to disallow or recommend amendments of any enactments made by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly; and Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978
to remove the Governor-General’s power to to disallow or recommend amendments of any laws made by the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory.
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13 May 2010
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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XENOPHON, Sen Nick
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Amends the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to require that, in order to receive exemption from income tax, the aims and activities of religious and charitable institutions must be assessed against a public benefit test.
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26 Nov 2009
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Not Proceeding
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XENOPHON, Sen Nick
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Amends the
Trade Practices Act 1974
to prevent corporations from directly or indirectly merging with or acquiring an asset which would result in material lessening of competition in the relevant market.
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25 Jun 2009
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
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Amends the
Telecommunications Act 1997
to: require utilities to provide information, as well as telecommunications providers, specified by the minister; specify the purposes for which protected network information is permitted to be disclosed and used; and change sunset periods so that information can be disclosed and used during the roll-out of the national broadband network.
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24 Jun 2009
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Not Proceeding
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XENOPHON, Sen Nick
JOYCE, Sen Barnaby
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Amends the
Trade Practices Act 1974
to provide that a corporation sell the same product at the same price at all its retail outlets within a 35 kilometre geographic area.
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03 Dec 2008
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
to: exempt medical devices from the operation of the Act to enable goods to be stockpiled for use in a health emergency and remove the requirement that such exemptions are disallowable instruments; adjust the test of whether a person is a ‘fit and proper person’ to hold a manufacturing licence or a medical device conformity assessment certificate; adopt the European Pharmacopoeia and United States Pharmacopoeia as additional default standards; enable public access to information held by the Therapeutic Goods Administration; ensure controls over restricted and prohibited representations apply to advertisements in all media; and align penalties with current policy formulations.
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19 Mar 2008
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Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
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Amends the
Telecommunications Act 1997
to require telecommunications carriers to disclose certain information to the Commonwealth which can be disclosed to companies considering responding to a proposal for the development of a National Broadband Network. The requirement to provide information ceases 12 months after the legislation commences.
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20 Jun 2007
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
, Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006
and Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices) Act 2002
to extend transitional registration arrangements for certain patient treatment devices beyond 4 October 2007 to enable reassessment by the Therapeutic Goods Administration prior to entry in Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods as ‘included’ devices.
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