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TOTAL RESULTS: 165
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04 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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BANDT, Adam, MP
BROADBENT, Russell, MP
VAMVAKINOU, Maria, MP
- Summary
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Amends the:
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
to create a legal presumption that, if a firefighter has been employed for a certain period before being diagnosed with one of seven primary site cancers, the employment is taken to have been the dominant cause of the contraction of the cancer.
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06 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
to: enable parenting payment recipients to transfer temporarily to bereavement allowance following the death of a partner; remove the family member exemption from the two-year newly arrived resident’s waiting period before special benefit is payable; enable the minister to make legislative instruments determining Impairment Tables and rules relating to the tables; and clarify that payments made by an employer to an employee in lieu of notice of termination are regarded as redundancy payments for the purposes of the social security payments; Disability Services Act 1986
to provide that disability advocacy services compliance with new Disability Advocacy Standards will be assessed by an independent certification body over a three-year cycle; and Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to certain asset-test exempt income streams and the provision of actuarial certificates.
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06 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997
and Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
to transfer the administration of making determinations relating to the early release of superannuation benefits on compassionate grounds to the Chief Executive Medicare; and Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998
to provide that the administration of making determinations relating to the early release of superannuation benefits on compassionate grounds continues to be funded by superannuation industry levies.
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13 Sep 2011
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House of Representatives
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Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
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Further to the package of bills to implement a carbon pricing mechanism, the bill establishes a framework for the Steel Transformation Plan comprising of a $300 million entitlement program for the Australian steel manufacturing industry over four years from the 2012-13 financial year. Also provides for: the minister to approve competitiveness assistance advances up to the value of $164 million in the 2011 12 financial year; administrative details relating to the plan to be included in a legislative instrument; and a monitoring regime.
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21 Sep 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Social Security Act 1991
to: provide students from Inner Regional Areas with access to independent youth allowance; reset relocation scholarship values from 2012 for eligible regional students and provide for the values to be indexed from 2013; reduce the value of the student start-up scholarship payment from 2012 and provide for the payments to be indexed annually from 2013; provide for the cessation of the Rural Tertiary Hardship Fund; and make technical amendments.
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21 Sep 2011
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Senate
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to: commence a 3.5 year trial on 1 January 2012 requiring certain teenage parents residing in certain areas who receive parenting payment to develop and sign an Employment Pathway Plan; suspend income support for teenage parents who fail to participate in the plan without a reasonable excuse; commence a three-year trial on 1 July 2012 requiring certain jobless family members who are receiving parenting payment to develop and sign an Employment Pathway Plan; and provide that parents in either of these trials do not lose entitlement to other payments if they fail to comply with trial requirements.
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02 Nov 2011
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Part of a package of 11 bills, the bill amends the
Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
to: increase the superannuation guarantee age of an employee at which the superannuation guarantee no longer needs to be provided from 70 to 75 years of age; and incrementally increase the superannuation guarantee charge percentage from 9 per cent to reach 12 per cent in the 2019-20 financial year.
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23 Nov 2011
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House of Representatives
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Part of a package of three bills to implement the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory framework, the bill amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to enable income management to be triggered by referrals from state and territory agencies; and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to: enable the minister to specify states, territories or areas in which the vulnerable, long-term welfare payment and disengaged youth income management measures will apply; provide that income management continues despite a change in residence; and provide that certain parents may be required to enter into a school attendance plan and may have income support payments suspended if the plan is not complied with.
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23 Nov 2011
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House of Representatives
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Part of a package of three bills to implement the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory framework, the bill: repeals the
Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007
and makes certain consequent saving and transitional arrangements; and amends the: Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
to: make amendments consequent on the repeal of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007
; and enable Land Councils, if requested to do so, to provide assistance to owners of community living areas; Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995
to: provide that the restriction on prohibited material will continue, with the Minister for Indigenous Affairs responsible for determining to which areas this restriction applies; require the minister to review these restrictions after seven years; and provide for the sunset of the restriction of prohibited material provisions after ten years; Crimes Act 1914
to enable customary law and cultural practice to be considered in bail and sentencing decisions for certain offences; and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to make an amendment consequent on the repeal of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007
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09 Feb 2012
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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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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
in relation to: age requirements for social security payments; income tests for newstart and youth allowances; claims for newstart allowance; working credit balances; a parenting payment transitional arrangement; and a technical amendment; Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
in relation to the determination of penalty amounts for no show no pay failures or reconnection failures; and Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
to provide additional funding for the Student Education Trusts measure for the 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2013 appropriation period.
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