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13 Oct 2016
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House of Representatives
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Employment
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Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seacare scheme, the bill imposes a seafarers insurance levy (to support a safety net fund where an employer cannot meet its workers’ compensation obligations) and a seafarers cost recovery levy (to enable the recovery of the costs of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Comcare and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in performing their respective regulatory functions) on seafarer berths.
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13 Oct 2016
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House of Representatives
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Employment
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Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seacare scheme, the bill provides for the collection of the seafarers insurance levy and the seafarers cost recovery levy by: requiring employers of seafarers to lodge returns in relation to the number of seafarer berths aboard a prescribed vessel and make levy payments quarterly; providing for a late payment penalty; providing for the appointment of authorised persons and the manner in which authorised persons may have access to premises and books for the purpose of examining certain matters; and enabling the transfer of funds raised by the cost recovery levy to Comcare and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
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31 May 2017
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Environment and Energy
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Amends the
Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012
to remove the prohibition on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation investing in carbon capture and storage technologies.
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23 Mar 2017
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House of Representatives
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Environment and Energy
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Amends the
Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011
to: remove the obligation to obtain consent of eligible interest holders from existing area-based emissions-avoidance projects; clarify that state and territory government Crown lands ministers and Commonwealth ministers responsible for land rights legislation have consent rights for projects conducted on exclusive possession native title land that is Torrens system land or land rights land; provide for legislative rules or regulations to allow parts of a sequestration offsets project to be removed and credits surrendered for the carbon stored in that area; ensure a sequestration project’s net total liability under the scheme does not include credits issued for emissions avoidance or credits that have already been relinquished; clarify that requirements to relinquish carbon credits if carbon stores are lost apply to sequestration projects that store carbon and avoid emissions; provide for projects to transfer between methods so as to move between emissions-avoidance and sequestration; ensure that relinquishment requirements apply to projects whose crediting period extends beyond their permanence period; and allow legislative rules or regulations to provide for the removal of regulatory approval or consent conditions on declarations obtained after the end of the first reporting period for the project.
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13 Feb 2019
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House of Representatives
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Families and Social Services
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29 Nov 2018
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House of Representatives
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Families and Social Services
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Amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: establish new means test rules to accommodate the development of new innovative income streams; amend the current rules for lifetime income streams; increase the Work Bonus from $250 to $300 per fortnight and extend its application to income earned from remunerative work that involves personal exertion, including self-employment and work undertaken by contractors or consultants; and expand the Pension Loans Scheme to increase the access of certain classes of persons to the scheme; and Social Security Act 1991
to make technical amendments.
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14 Feb 2019
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House of Representatives
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Finance
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14 Feb 2019
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Finance
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14 Feb 2019
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Before House of Representatives
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Finance
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05 Dec 2018
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House of Representatives
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Passed Both Houses
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Finance
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Amends the
Parliamentary Service Act 1999
to change the deadline for publishing the post-election report of election commitments, which is prepared and published by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), from before the end of 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for a general election to the later of either 30 days after the end of the caretaker period for the general election to which the report relates or 7 days before the first sitting day of either or both Houses of the Parliament after the general election to which the report relates.
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