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TOTAL RESULTS: 144
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- Date
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06 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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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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- Date
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20 Mar 2024
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Passed Both Houses
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Portfolio
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Health and Aged Care
- Summary
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Amends the
National Health Act 1953
and Health Insurance Act 1973
to remove the requirement for a collaborative arrangement between an eligible nurse practitioner or eligible midwife and a medical practitioner to enable that midwife or practitioner to prescribe Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines or provide services under Medicare.
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30 Nov 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Treasury
- Summary
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Introduced with the Help to Buy Bill 2023, the bill amends the
Housing Australia Act 2018
to make amendments consequential on the establishment of the Help to Buy Scheme.
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- Date
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30 Nov 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before Senate
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Introduced with the Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023, the bill establishes a Commonwealth shared equity program (Help to Buy Scheme) to be administered by Housing Australia that will assist low to middle income earners to purchase new or existing homes.
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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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Portfolio
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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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- Date
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30 Nov 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
ANTIC, Sen Alex
BABET, Sen Ralph
- Summary
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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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29 Nov 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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THORPE, Sen Lidia
- Summary
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Amends the
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
to amend the definition of ‘human rights’ to include the rights and freedoms outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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27 Mar 2024
- 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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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Amends the
Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012
to: enable testing of timber products at the border and beyond to ensure non-compliant illegally logged timber is not imported; introduce a requirement for importers and processors to give notice before importing or processing regulated timber products; add strict liability offences, injunctions and enforceable undertakings to enforcement powers; enable audits to be carried out to determine compliance with the due diligence requirements; and extend the time frame for issuing infringement notices to 24 months and enable the department to publish details of contraventions on their website.
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09 Mar 2023
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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HANSON, Sen Pauline
- Summary
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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 Jun 2023
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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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Amends the:
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Intelligence Services Act 2001
to: expand the jurisdictions of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) to include the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs; provide that the PJCIS may review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation, and all such expiring legislation; enable the PJCIS to request the IGIS to conduct an inquiry into certain operational activities of the agencies within the IGIS’s jurisdiction; clarify the legislation which enables the PJCIS to request a briefing from the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor; clarify the IGIS’s complaints jurisdiction; and make technical amendments; Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986
and Office of National Intelligence Act 2018
to require the IGIS and the Office of National Intelligence to provide annual briefings to the PJCIS; Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010
to require the IGIS to provide annual briefings to the committee; Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975
to amend the review and access of ACIC criminal intelligence assessment records; and Criminal Code Act 1995
to include an exemption from civil and criminal liability for defence officials and others for certain computer-related conduct. Also makes consequential amendments to 15 Acts.
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