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- Date
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13 May 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
- Summary
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Amends the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: provide 26 weeks government-funded paid parental leave for all eligible Australian parents at the level of the federal minimum wage, or average wage, with a right to return to work; and make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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12 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
- Summary
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Amends the:
Federal Financial Relations Act 2009
to increase the general drawing rights limit for the 2008-09 financial year to $1,250,000,000 to enable the Commonwealth to provide general purpose financial assistance to the states; and Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act 1995
to enable the minister to permit a state to receive an entitlement to financial assistance before the end of the financial year to which that assistance relates.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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The bill: repeals the
Workplace Relations Act 1996
(other than Schedules relating to registered organisations and transitionally registered associations) and renames it the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
; provides for the application of the National Employment Standards and minimum wages to all national system employees from 1 January 2010; ensures no reduction in employees’ take home pay results from the transition to a modern award; establishes rules in relation to the treatment of existing instruments; introduces transitional bargaining and agreement-making rules; abolishes the office of Workplace Ombudsman (WO); provides for the limited, continued operation of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, WO, Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and the Australian Industrial Registry and appoints existing full-time AIRC members to Fair Work Australia (FWA); provides that existing investigations and compliance proceedings by the WO will be dealt with by the Fair Work Ombudsman and allows Fair Work Inspectors to exercise new compliance powers in relation to breaches occurring before or after 1 July 2009; gives FWA power to make representation orders in response to union demarcation disputes; establishes rules to enable state-registered organisations to participate in the new federal workplace relations system; and amends the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
and Federal Magistrates Act 1999
to create Fair Work Divisions within those courts.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Amends: the
Life Insurance Act 1995
to establish a prudential regulation regime for non-operating holding companies of life insurance companies to be administered by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA); 19 other Acts to make consequential amendments; and the Banking Act 1959
, Insurance Act 1973
, Life Insurance Act 1995
, Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
and First Home Saver Accounts Act 2008
to provide APRA with power to seek court injunctions against breaches of conditions or directions issued under those Acts.
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- Date
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18 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to remove the tax system option for delivery of family tax benefit payments; Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to enable people subject to the Northern Territory income management regime to access the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal appeal mechanisms; and Social Security Act 1991
to: provide new Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) participants, commencing on or after 1 July 2009, with access to the CDEP program while receiving income support payments; and provide that existing CDEP participants receive CDEP wages from CDEP providers and, in certain circumstances, the CDEP Scheme Participant Supplement.
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- Date
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18 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Environment, Heritage and the Arts
- Summary
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Amends the
Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
to: provide the minister with a wider range of conditions that can apply to approvals to vary fuel standards; simplify procedures when an urgent approval is required to avoid a fuel supply shortfall; provide for civil penalties, infringement notices and enforceable undertakings; enable the minister to consider how fuel is to be supplied when determining a standard; extend information sharing powers; and extend the types of courts that have jurisdiction for various matters.
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- Date
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16 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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SIEWERT, Sen Rachel
- Summary
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The bill: prohibits the manufacture, distribution, offering for sale, selling or otherwise trading in food containing synthetic trans fatty acids; and retains the right of state and territory governments to develop their own complementary or alternative regulatory regime.
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- Date
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12 Feb 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Introduced with the Federal Financial Relations Bill 2009, the bill makes amendments and repeals parts of five Acts consequent on the proposed
Federal Financial Relations Act 2009
. Also repeals the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998
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- Date
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12 Feb 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Introduced with the Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009, the bill appropriates funds to provide financial assistance to the states by implementing COAG’s Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations through general revenue assistance (including GST payments), National Specific Purpose Payments and National Partnership payments.
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- Date
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03 Dec 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Introduced with the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008, the bill amends the
Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983
, Federal Court of Australia Act 1976
and Judiciary Act 1903
to enable the Federal Court to apply uniform indictable criminal procedure across Australia to deal with serious cartel offences. Also makes consequential and other amendments to five other Acts.
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