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28 Oct 2021
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House of Representatives
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National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Summary
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Implements certain recommendations of the 2019 review of the
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
(the Tune review) by amending the: National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 to establish the Participant Service Guarantee to provide timeframes and engagement principles for how the National Disability Insurance Agency undertakes key administrative processes; enable participant’s plans to be varied without requiring a full plan review; amend the objects and principles of the Act; clarify the eligibility criteria for people with psychosocial disability; streamline certain administrative processes for participants; provide clarity in relation to decisions about plan management requests and extend the risk assessment process for self-management of funding to those using registered plan management providers; enable the National Disability Insurance Agency to make direct payments on behalf of participants; and remove redundant provisions and make technical amendments; and DisabilityCare Australia Fund Act 2013
to make a consequential amendment.
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28 Oct 2021
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House of Representatives
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Health
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Amends the:
National Health Act 1953
to: provide for price reductions on the fifth, tenth and fifteenth anniversary of a drug listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and when the first new brand of a drug lists on the PBS; retain ministerial discretion to ensure that the minister can intervene if a legislated price reduction were to have an unintended consequence; and establish a price reduction floor, and stockholding requirements, for certain PBS listed brands that may be susceptible to global medicines shortages; and National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits—Budget and Other Measures) Act 2018
to remove redundant provisions.
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22 Nov 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
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Amends the
Customs Act 1901
to prohibit the importation into Australia of goods that are produced in whole or in part by forced labour.
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22 Nov 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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ALBANESE, Anthony, MP
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to ensure all workers employed through labour hire companies will receive the same wage as employees employed directly.
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23 Nov 2021
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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GRIFF, Sen Stirling
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to enable the minister to make rules to establish and maintain a public register of statistical information relating to surgical procedures and patient outcomes.
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24 Nov 2021
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Senate
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Foreign Affairs
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Amends the
Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011
to: specify thematic categories of conduct to which autonomous sanctions can be applied; clarify that autonomous sanctions regimes established under the regulations can be either country-specific or thematic; and specify decision-making processes for imposing targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on person and entities under thematic sanctions regimes.
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24 Nov 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Home Affairs
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Amends the:
Customs Act 1901
to enable time-limited trials of trade and customs practices with approved entities in a controlled regulatory environment; and Australian Border Force Act 2015
to prevent the Comptroller-General of Customs from delegating their powers to make rules in relation to controlled trials.
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24 Nov 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Home Affairs
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: establish new criminal offences and civil penalties that apply where a person coerces or exerts undue influence or pressure on a non-citizen to accept or agree to certain work arrangements; establish a power to prohibit, for a specified period of time, employers who are subject to a specified migrant worker sanction from allowing additional non-citizens to begin work; require employers and third party providers to use the Visa Entitlement Verification Online system to verify prospective non-citizen workers' immigration status and work-related visa conditions prior to employment; align and increase penalties for certain work-related offences and contraventions or work-related civil penalty provisions; provide the Australian Border Force with regulatory powers in relation to compliance notices and enforceable undertakings for work-related breaches; and enable the minister to delegate their functions and powers in relation to enforceable undertakings.
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24 Nov 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Home Affairs
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: amend the character test by providing grounds to consider visa cancellation or refusal where a non-citizen has been convicted of offences involving violence against a person, weapons, breaching of an apprehended violence order (or similar) or non-consensual sexual acts; provide that, for an offence involving violence against a person, a person's conviction for an offence of common assault, or equivalent, will not be taken to be a conviction for a designated offence unless the act constituting the offence causes or substantially contributes to bodily harm to another person, or harm to another person's mental health, or involves family violence; and make consequential amendments.
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25 Nov 2021
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Agriculture and Northern Australia
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Amends the:
Australian Animal Health Council (Live-stock Industries) Funding Act 1996
to: facilitate the funding of emergency responses under emergency biosecurity response deeds other than the Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement, including the proposed Emergency Response Deed for Aquatic Animal Diseases; provide for the Governor-General to make regulations prescribing certain matters; and remove redundant provisions that relate to honey, as honey-related levies are no longer paid to Animal Health Australia; Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002
to: broaden the scope of permissible uses for Emergency Plant Pest Response (EPPR) levies to include the promotion or maintenance of the health of an EPPR plant; provide for the secretary to determine by notifiable instrument a body in relation to a specified EPPR plant product; and remove redundant provisions that provide for the redirection of excess levies to research and development purposes; and Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000
and Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989
to make consequential amendments.
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