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TOTAL RESULTS: 165
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- Date
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12 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to introduce a non-indexed Carer Supplement, payable to carers currently receiving qualifying payments; Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to exempt the supplement from income tax; and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
to remove indexation of higher income thresholds for certain family assistance payments until 2012.
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- Date
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13 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Establishes Safe Work Australia (SWA) as a statutory body, with power to make recommendations directly to the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council in relation to occupational health and safety outcomes and workers’ compensation arrangements. SWA will replace the Australian Safety and Compensation Council.
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- Date
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13 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to change confidentiality provisions to enable Centrelink to use and disclose protected information to facilitate the Digital Switch-over Household Assistance Program.
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- Date
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27 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Consequent on the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) Bill 2009, the bill amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
in relation to: redundant references; activity test relief; short term or episodic carers qualification for a health card; and principal beneficiaries of special disability trusts; Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
in relation to: redundant references; and backdating claims for carer payments made between 1 July and 1 October 2009; and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to principal beneficiaries of special disability trusts.
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- Date
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28 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Social Security Act 1991
to provide that: certain recipients of newstart allowance and parenting payment may receive a training supplement of $41.60 a fortnight; and early school leavers undertake full-time study or comply with a Youth Allowance Employment Pathway Plan to qualify for youth allowance.
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- Date
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28 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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Amends the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
, Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to exempt the values of payments made under the Skills for Sustainability for Australian Apprentices and Tools For Your Trade programs from treatment as assessable income for taxation, social security and veterans’ affairs purposes.
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- Date
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15 Jun 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
to: increase the single maximum basic rate of certain pensions; index pensions using the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index; index pensions using a combined couple benchmark; increase pensions to compensate for anticipated increases in the living cost index arising from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; increase the income test taper rate and remove the additional income test free area for dependent children; introduce a Work Bonus so that certain income is disregarded as ordinary income; close the pension bonus scheme from 20 September 2009; make transitional arrangements; increase the qualifying age for age pension from 65 to 67 years; enable certain social security recipients to apply for an advance of social security entitlements; and enable certain social security recipients to be paid while studying overseas; Social Security Act 1991
, Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to consolidate a number of smaller payments and allowances into one pension supplement; Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: require income salary sacrificed to superannuation to be included as adjusted taxable income for the Commonwealth seniors health card; and exclude amounts and benefits received under the Western Australian Cost of Living Rebate Scheme and the Western Australian Country Age Pension Fuel Card from social security and veterans’ affairs income tests; A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
to change indexation arrangements for certain family tax benefit child rates and the maternity immunisation allowance; Aged Care Act 1997
to increase payments to people in residential aged care; and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to enable Australian Defence Force members allotted for duty on HMAS Canberra
as part of Operation DAMASK VI to access entitlements under the Act.
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- Date
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24 Jun 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Finance and Deregulation
- Summary
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The bill: amends 17 Acts to remove redundant provisions; repeals eight redundant Acts; and makes consequential amendments to three Acts.
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- Date
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07 Sep 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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LUDLAM, Sen Scott
- Summary
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Amends the
Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991
to prohibit certain advertising being shown during programs on SBS television.
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- Date
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10 Sep 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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In response to recommendations of the Review of Higher Education (the Bradley Review), the bill amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
to: phase-in a change to the age of independence from 25 to 22 years for the purposes of the independent youth allowance; provide that youth allowance claimants will not be able to attain independence through part-time employment or wages; increase the annual parental income threshold for non-independent youth allowance recipients; change the taper rate from 25 per cent per person to 20 per cent for families for the parental income reduction for youth allowance; increase and index to the Consumer Price Index the personal income free area for youth allowance, austudy students and Australian Apprentices; and provide the training supplement to all parenting payment recipients who are subject to participation requirements; and Social Security Act 1991
, Higher Education Support Act 2003
, Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
, Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: provide for a start-up scholarship and a relocation scholarship (both to be indexed from 2011); and exempt (to an indexed threshold) merit and equity based scholarships from the income test under social security and veterans’ entitlements legislation.
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