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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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29 Sep 2010
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House of Representatives
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Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations
- 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 January 2011; establish the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP): Services and Amenities-HELP (SA-HELP) to enable eligible students to access a loan for the fee; and require higher education providers that receive funding for student places under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme to implement National Access to Services Benchmarks.
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12 May 2010
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the:
National Health Act 1953
to extend the operation of the Pharmacy Location Rules and the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority to 30 June 2015; and Private Health Insurance Act 2007
in relation to lifetime health cover and new migrants.
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12 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Education
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In response to a recommendation of the
Review of Australian Higher Education
(the Bradley Review), the bill amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003
to replace the Safety Net Adjustment wage price index with the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services wage price index published by the Australian Statistician.
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24 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Crimes Act 1914
and Health Insurance Act 1973
to: make amendments consequential on the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions; and provide for transitional arrangements.
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010, the bill amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to authorise the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare to delegate functions to support the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HIS); and Privacy Act 1988
to: provide that the HIS comes under the jurisdiction of the Privacy Commissioner; and make amendments consequential on the Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Introduced with the Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010, the bill establishes the national e-health Healthcare Identifiers Service to provide that patients, healthcare providers and provider organisations can be consistently identified.
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04 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Education
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to list University College London as an eligible provider to enable it to offer FEE-HELP assistance to eligible domestic students.
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25 Nov 2009
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Act 2007
to: broaden the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme to require practices providing non-radiology services, or a combination of radiology and non-radiology services, to obtain accreditation; and provide transitional arrangements.
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21 Oct 2009
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable certain New Zealand permanent resident and citizen doctors to provide professional services that attract Medicare benefits without being subject to a ten year waiting period (the ‘moratorium’ period); remove the requirement for overseas trained doctors to have both Australian permanent residency or citizenship and medical registration before the moratorium period commences; and provide for a 90 day period in which medical practitioners can appeal against a refusal for an exemption from the moratorium period.
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09 Sep 2009
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Education
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Amends the
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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