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• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide a one-off increase to the pension payable to totally and permanently incapacitated veterans (known as the TPI payment). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Military Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment (Incapacity Payments) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jul 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to: enable veterans engaged in an approved rehabilitation program and undertaking full-time study to continue to receive incapacity payments at 100 per cent of their normal weekly earnings for an additional year, to 1 July 2023; and enable back-payments for student veterans who should have been eligible for the higher rate of payment to cover the period from 1 July 2022 until the Act's commencement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence, Veterans’ and Families’ Acute Support Package Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Vetrans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to: extend eligibility to veterans and their family members who are at risk of or in crisis, whether or not the veteran is participating in a rehabilitation program or has rendered warlike service; and expand the range of supports available to family members under the current family support package;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide that acute support packages for veterans and their families are exempt from income tax; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that acute support packages for veterans and their families are not income for the purposes of the social security income test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Women 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  to: require the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to publish gender pay gap information of relevant employers for each reporting period; rename the current 'minimum standards' as 'gender equality standards'; require relevant employers to provide executive summary and industry benchmark reports to all members of their governing body; include 'sexual harassment', 'harassment on the ground of sex' or 'discrimination' as gender equality indicators; change the title of the 'Director' of the WGEA to 'Chief Executive Officer'; and make a technical amendment to the definition of 'reporting period'. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

   

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to create a new form of Higher Education Loan Program assistance, SY-HELP, which will be available to final year undergraduate students, current post-graduate students and recent graduates in accelerator program courses at Australian universities and university colleges; list Avondale University as a Table B provider;

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to provide that students entitled to SY-HELP assistance may qualify for certain social security payments, including youth allowance and austudy payment, while undertaking an accelerator program course; and

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: apply indexation to existing appropriation amounts for the 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial years; and insert a new funding cap for the 2025-26 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Effect of Prosecution—Approved Pharmacist Corporations) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to enable the suspension or revocation of an approved pharmacist’s approval to supply pharmaceutical benefits where the approval is held by an approved pharmacist corporation and a director is charged or convicted with a PBS related offence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Data Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

   

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011

  to: support data collection and arrangements in relation to the use and disclosure of vocational education training data; and enable the Ministerial Council to delegate certain powers in relation to data provision requirements; and

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Transitional Provisions) Act 2011

  to include transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Aug 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Sponsor

  GOSLING, Luke, MP
  PAYNE, Alicia, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988

  and

  Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978

  to remove the prohibition on legalising euthanasia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum