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TOTAL RESULTS: 92
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- Date
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25 Jun 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
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Act
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Portfolio
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Cabinet Secretary
- Summary
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Appoints an Independent National Security Legislation Monitor to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of counter-terrorism and national security legislation and provides for: the functions and powers of the position; annual reporting requirements; and protection from legal action. Also contains a regulation making power.
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- Date
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17 Mar 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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GEORGIOU, Petro, MP
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Provides for the appointment of an independent person to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of laws relating to terrorism.
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- Date
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23 Jun 2008
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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TROETH, Sen Judith
HUMPHRIES, Sen Gary
- Summary
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Provides for the appointment of an independent person to review the operation, effectiveness and implications of laws relating to terrorism.
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- Date
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17 Aug 2011
- 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:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005
and Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
to change the title of certain statutory positions to ‘Chief Executive Officer’; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005
to: allow information held by Indigenous Business Australia to be disclosed in limited circumstances; and remove certain references to two discontinued Aboriginal Hostels Limited schemes.
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- Date
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29 May 2008
- 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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Amends the:
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
to: allow for township leases to be for a period of between 40 and 99 years and provide for rights of renewal; expand the functions of the Executive Director of Township Leasing; allow for the grant of 13 areas of Aboriginal land which will be operated as national parks; and make minor amendments; and Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007
to: provide processes for payments to landholders for the acquisition of five-year leases; and make minor and technical amendments.
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- Date
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23 Jun 2011
- 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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Amends the:
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
to enable certain parcels of land to be granted to relevant Aboriginal Land Trusts; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005
to: remove the connection between the election of members to the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) and Queensland local government elections; and allow for changes to be made to the composition of the TSRA, following a governance review.
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- Date
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23 May 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Science and Training
- Summary
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Amends the
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
to appropriate additional funding for Indigenous students through: the expansion of the Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme and Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme; infrastructure funding for boarding school facilities; and where education providers agree, the conversion of Community Development Employment Projects program places into ongoing jobs in the education sector.
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- Date
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29 May 2008
- 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
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
to appropriate additional funding for Indigenous students to: expand intensive literacy and numeracy programs; enable teachers to develop individual learning plans; and establish three new boarding accommodation facilities in the Northern Territory.
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- Date
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14 Feb 2008
- 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
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
to appropriate additional funding to enable the employment of 200 additional teachers in Northern Territory Indigenous communities affected by the Northern Territory Emergency Response.
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16 Aug 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Science and Training
- Summary
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Amends the
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
to appropriate additional funding to enable Indigenous students in certain Cape York communities to access the Making Up for Lost Time in Literacy (MULTILIT) program and for students’ parents to establish Student Education Trusts to finance their children’s education.
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