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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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13 May 2009
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Health and Ageing
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Establishes Health Workforce Australia as an independent statutory body to implement Council of Australian Governments (COAG) health workforce initiatives agreed to in November 2008 including funding, planning and coordinating clinical training, supporting clinical training supervision and health workforce research and planning, funding simulation training, and providing advice to Health Ministers. Also contains a regulation making power.
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18 Mar 2009
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House of Representatives
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Education
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Amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to: clarify that students cannot access VET FEE-HELP assistance to undertake a vocational education and training (VET) unit of study that is not essential to the student’s course; ensure that the minister can revoke the approval of a VET provider of a body corporate that does not meet certain requirements; and allow higher education and VET provider notices of approval to take effect the day following registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
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12 Feb 2009
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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 six bills to give effect to the Government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan, the bill amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to provide for the payment of a one-off $950 bonus to: eligible students returning to study or training in 2009 and certain other income support recipients; and farmers and farm-related small business owners receiving exceptional circumstances related income support payments; Social Security Act 1991
to: reduce the qualification period for the education entry payment from 12 months to four weeks of continuous receipt of income support payments; and provide for an education entry payment supplement of $950 to those eligible for the education entry payment; A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: provide for the payment of a one-off $950 per child bonus to families eligible for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A and certain children who receive a carer payment or disability support pension; and provide for a single income family bonus payment of $900 for families entitled to the FTB Part B. Also: enables the establishment of administrative schemes to provide bonus payments in circumstances where the statutory regime does not produce an appropriate result; and makes consequential amendments to four other Acts.
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11 Feb 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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Amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
and Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
to: allow higher education providers to impose an annual capped compulsory student services and amenities fee of $250 from 1 July 2009; establish the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP): Services and Amenities-HELP (SA-HELP) to enable eligible students to access a loan for the fee; require higher education providers that receive funding for student places under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme to implement National Access to Services Benchmarks; and Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: broaden the guidelines-making powers to vary the VET FEE-HELP debt; allow different requirements to apply to different students undertaking VET units of study; and provide that officers of Tertiary Admission Centres have the same status and duty of care as those of higher education providers in relation to processing student information.
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04 Feb 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Part of a package of six bills to give effect to the Government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan, the bill amends the:
Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to provide for the payment of a one-off $950 bonus to: eligible students returning to study or training in 2009 and certain other income support recipients; and farmers and farm-related small business owners receiving exceptional circumstances related income support payments; Social Security Act 1991
to: reduce the qualification period for the education entry payment from 12 months to four weeks of continuous receipt of income support payments; and provide for an education entry payment supplement of $950 to those eligible for the education entry payment; A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: provide for the payment of a one-off $950 per child bonus to families eligible for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A and certain children who receive a carer payment or disability support pension; and provide for a single income family bonus payment of $950 for families entitled to the FTB Part B. Also: enables the establishment of administrative schemes to provide bonus payments in circumstances where the statutory regime does not produce an appropriate result; and makes further consequential amendments to four other Acts.
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29 May 2008
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
in relation to: compulsory Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayments and a HECS-HELP benefit for certain graduates and teachers; funding amounts to reflect supplementation for indexation increases, budget measures, technical adjustments for 2009-12, and maximum grant amounts for 2012; transitional loading under the Commonwealth Grant Scheme; phasing out domestic undergraduate full fee paying places at public universities; and maximum contribution amounts for mathematics, statistics and science units of study.
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15 May 2008
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998
to: extend the appropriation period from five to six years; and increase the amount appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund by $10.25 billion.
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19 Mar 2008
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to allow specialists and consultant physicians access to the 90 Day Pay Doctor Cheque Scheme where the original claim for the Medicare benefit is submitted electronically to Medicare Australia.
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21 Feb 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill amends the
Australian Animal Health Council (Live-stock Industries) Funding Act 1996
to enable horse disease response levies to be appropriated to the Australian Animal Health Council to repay amounts paid by the Commonwealth due to an outbreak of an emergency horse disease. Any excess levies are to be used for research and development activities or the promotion or maintenance of horse health.
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21 Feb 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill imposes a levy on the first registration of horses, to enable the horse industry to repay amounts paid by the Commonwealth on behalf of the horse industry in the event of an outbreak of an emergency horse disease.
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