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TOTAL RESULTS: 118
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13 Feb 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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STEGGALL, Zali, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to cancel Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP11) and prohibit any further petroleum exploration in the PEP11.
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27 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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HAMILTON, Garth, MP
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Amends the
Online Safety Act 2021
to: define ‘criminal activity material’ as material that is hosted on a social media service, a relevant electronic service, or a designated internet service, and depicts conduct that could be deemed to be a criminal offence; and expand the functions of the eSafety Commissioner to include administering a complaints system for criminal activity material.
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07 Sep 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
TYRRELL, Sen Tammy
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Amends the
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
to implement a recommendation of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide to allow a royal commission, whose terms of reference require an examination of government, to analyse and draw inferences or conclusions from evidence that is subject to parliamentary privilege.
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15 Aug 2018
- Chamber
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Senate
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HANSON, Sen Pauline
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Establishes a legislative framework for a national plebiscite to be held in conjunction with the next general election that would ask Australians “Do you think the current rate of immigration to Australia is too high?”.
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22 Mar 2023
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Senate
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DUNIAM, Sen Jonathon
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Amends the
Productivity Commission Act 1998
to: require the Productivity Commission to prepare quarterly reports on retail electricity prices and energy sources for electricity generation; and require the minister to table these reports within 30 days after the end of the quarterly period.
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30 Nov 2022
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House of Representatives
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends the:
Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013
to: provide that 'personal work-related conduct' does not fall within the public interest disclosure (PID) scheme; amend the process for authorised officers' handling and allocation of disclosures, and principal officers' investigation of disclosures; expand the scope of protections for disclosers and availability of civil remedies for reprisal action taken against a person who has made, or may make, a PID; remove the general secrecy offence; clarify the roles of the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security in receiving and investigating complaints about the handling of a disclosure by an agency; establish a procedure for handling disclosures where there is a machinery of government change; amend the definitions of 'agencies', 'public officials' and 'principal officers'; exclude grant recipients from the application of the Act; provide for a review of the Act five years after the commencement of the amendments in the bill; and make minor amendments; and National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022
, National Anti-Corruption Commission (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2022
and Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013
to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation enacted in November 2022.
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27 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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HAINES, Helen, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to: include home batteries as an eligible technology to create small-scale technology certificates under the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme; and provide for an independent review of the operation of the scheme.
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13 May 2021
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WATERS, Sen Larissa
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Amends the
]Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997
to prohibit the Snowy Hydro Company and Snowy hydro-group companies from being involved in creating or investing in new fossil fuel-based electricity generation capacity.
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09 Mar 2023
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House of Representatives
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Social Services
- Summary
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Further to the
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Act 2022
, the bill amends the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to: expand access to the enhanced income management regime; enable people subject to the existing income management regime to move to the enhanced income management regime, thereby allowing them access to the BasicsCard bank account and superior SmartCard; and direct new entrants to the enhanced income management regime, ensuring no new participant is issued the BasicsCard.
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25 May 2023
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House of Representatives
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Social Services
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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
to: expand qualification for parenting payment (single) to single principal carers whose youngest child is aged under 14 years; increase the rates of certain working age and student payments, including jobseeker payment, youth allowance, parenting payment (partnered), austudy payment and disability support pension (youth), by $40 per fortnight; expand eligibility for the higher rate of jobseeker payment to recipients aged 55 years and over who have been on the payment for 9 or more continuous months; and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
, Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to increase the maximum rates of Commonwealth rent assistance by 15 per cent.
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