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TOTAL RESULTS: 159
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03 Jun 2009
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House of Representatives
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Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Amends the
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: introduce mandatory continuous adjustment of family tax benefit rates in certain circumstances; cease fortnightly family tax benefit and past period payments in the same income year when income tax returns are not lodged; and enable information sharing between the Australian Taxation Office and Centrelink for reconciliation and debt offsetting purposes.
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27 May 2009
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House of Representatives
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends: the
Fair Work Act 2009
to: enable states to refer matters to the Commonwealth to provide for the establishment of a uniform national workplace relations system for the private sector; enable states to choose the extent to which the Act applies to the public sector; and make consequential and minor amendments; the proposed Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
and Fair Work Act 2009
to: transition Victorian employers and employees to the workplace relations system created by the Fair Work Act; and establish a framework for making state reference public sector modern awards; and 67 Acts to make transitional and consequential amendments. Also enables further transitional and consequential arrangements to be made by regulation.
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- Date
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27 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
Medicare Levy Act 1986
to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for certain taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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27 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge--Fringe Benefits) Act 1999
to increase the rate of Medicare levy surcharge for taxpayers who do not have complying health insurance and whose income (including reportable fringe benefits) for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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27 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Part of a package of three bills to effect three private health insurance tiers, the bill amends the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
, Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
, Private Health Insurance Act 2007
, Taxation Administration Act 1953
and Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983
to reduce the amount of private health insurance rebate eligible taxpayers with complying private health insurance are entitled to when their income for surcharge purposes is above the relevant Medicare levy surcharge threshold.
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- Date
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14 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the:
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
, A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
, Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Budget and Other Measures) Act 2008
and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to change ‘child care tax rebate’ to ‘child care rebate’ (CCR); and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
in relation to: CCR in substitution; recovery of debts; civil penalties being imposed by regulations; and calculation and payment of CCR for the final quarter of an income year. Also makes amendments to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
consequential on the removal of the minimum child care benefit rate from 7 July 2008.
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12 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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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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19 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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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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19 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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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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18 Mar 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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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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