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18 Jun 2008
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
and Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Act 1989
in relation to the collection and imposition of annual charges and the granting of exemptions from a liability to pay annual charges, and makes technical and consequential amendments.
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24 Feb 2011
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Copyright Act 1968
to prevent companies commencing legal action asserting copyright in the text of an approved product information (PI) document for a medicine where it is used in the PI document of another version of the same medicine.
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17 Feb 1999
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Senate
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Health and Aged Care Portfolio
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17 Feb 2000
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House of Representatives
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Industry, Science and Resources portfolio
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31 May 2000
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House of Representatives
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Health and Aged Care Portfolio
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17 Nov 2010
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992
to make it an offence to advertise tobacco products on the internet and other electronic media and future technologies, unless the advertising complies with state or territory legislation or Commonwealth regulations.
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06 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Introduced with the Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011, the bill prevents tobacco advertising and promotion of tobacco products and tobacco product packaging by making it an offence to sell, supply, purchase, package or manufacture tobacco products or packaging for retail sale that are not compliant with plain packaging requirements.
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19 Jun 2002
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Senate
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Amends the
Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984
to allow for the Chair of the Torres Strait Regional Authority to be appointed as a full member of the Torres Strait Protected Zone Joint Authority.
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13 May 2004
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House of Representatives
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Tourism
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Further to the Tourism Australia Bill 2004, the bill: repeals the
Australian Tourist Commission Act 1987
; and puts in place transitional arrangements to facilitate the merger of the operations and employees of the Australian Tourist Commission, the Bureau of Tourism Research and the Tourism Forecasting Council into Tourism Australia. Also contains a regulation-making power.
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14 Feb 2007
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House of Representatives
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Industry, Tourism and Resources
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Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill amends the
Tourism Australia Act 2004
to: remove the position of government member from the Board; broaden ministerial power to terminate appointment of Board members; replace ministerial approval of the corporate plan and operational plan with endorsement and provide that the plans do not come into force until endorsed; and reduce the threshold for ministerial approval of contracts from $5 million to $3 million.
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