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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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31 Aug 2021
- Chamber
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Senate
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HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
- Summary
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Amends the:
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: establish the Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to exercise the routine administrative regulatory functions currently undertaken by the Commonwealth in relation to the Act and other Commonwealth legislation relating to the environment and undertake certain functions relating to communities; establish an Office of Monitoring, Compliance, Enforcement and Assurance within the EPA; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Environment and Energy; and Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
and Water Act 2007
to make consequential amendments.
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19 Jun 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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FARUQI, Sen Mehreen
MCKIM, Sen Nick
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Amends the:
Federal Financial Relations Act 2009
to: provide for additional designated housing agreements to include model tenancy standards; and create an instrument-making power allowing the minister to make additional payments to the states on the basis that the states agree to adopt the model tenancy standards, which would include implementing controls on rents and a ban on no-grounds eviction; and Reserve Bank Act 1959
to: insert an object stating that, in relation to differences of opinion between the Reserve Bank and the Government on questions of policy, the Government is ultimately responsible for monetary and banking policy; and provide that orders made to determine monetary policy can include freezing interest rates for a specified period of time.
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- Date
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06 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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SHOEBRIDGE, Sen David
- Summary
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Amends the
Governor-General Act 1974
to cease the payment of allowances to a former Governor-General, or a spouse of a former Governor-General, where they have engaged in serious misconduct.
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03 Aug 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Education
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: expand eligibility for places in demand driven higher education courses to First Nations students; and remove the current requirement that students must pass 50 per cent of the units they study to remain eligible for a Commonwealth supported place and FEE-HELP assistance and instead require higher education providers to support students to successfully complete the units of study in which they are enrolled.
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02 Aug 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Finance
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Introduced with the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 [No. 2] and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023 [No. 2], the bill establishes the Housing Australia Future Fund to make grants, and enable Housing Australia to make grants and loans, in relation to acute housing needs, social housing or affordable housing.
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30 Nov 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
ANTIC, Sen Alex
BABET, Sen Ralph
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The bill: clarifies that children born alive are persons; requires health practitioners to provide medical care, treatment and statistics on children born alive as a result of terminations; and provides that the mother of a child born alive is not liable to prosecution for an offence in respect of that child.
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- Date
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13 Sep 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
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- Date
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13 Sep 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Attorney-General
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- Date
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09 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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HANSON, Sen Pauline
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Amends the
Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard—February 2023) Instrument 2023
to amend the regulatory framework for medicinal cannabis by: re-scheduling medicinal cannabis, thereby allowing prescription by any medical practitioner; adopting a definition for cannabis as a regulated product that allows a higher level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); and allowing whole plant cannabis products with certain limits of THC and cannabidiol to be sold over the counter at a chemist or veterinary clinic to persons over 18 years of age.
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22 Mar 2023
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House of Representatives
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Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
- Summary
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Responds to recommendations of the independent review of Infrastructure Australia (IA) by amending the
Infrastructure Australia Act 2008
to amend the functions and governance structure of IA.
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