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TOTAL RESULTS: 106
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- Date
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09 Sep 2009
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Education
- 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 July 2009; 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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09 Sep 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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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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17 Sep 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty.
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- Date
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21 Oct 2009
- 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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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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- Date
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28 Oct 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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CORMANN, Sen Mathias
FIELDING, Sen Steve
XENOPHON, Sen Nick
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to provide that if an item in the general medical services table is disallowed under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003
, the corresponding item in the previous regulations is taken to apply from the time of disallowance.
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- Date
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25 Nov 2009
- 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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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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04 Feb 2010
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Education
- Summary
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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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- Date
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Health and Ageing
- Summary
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to allow patients to take a pathology request to an approved pathology practitioner or authority of their choice.
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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 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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