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• Intelligence Services Amendment (Establishment of the Australian Signals Directorate) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: establish the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) as an independent statutory agency within the Defence portfolio reporting directly to the Minister for Defence; amend ASD’s functions to include providing material, advice and other assistance to prescribed persons or bodies, and preventing and disrupting cybercrime; require the Director-General of ASD to brief the Leader of the Opposition about matters relating to ASD; and give the Director-General powers to employ persons as employees of ASD; and 18 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intelligence Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  ,

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  ,

  Office of National Assessments Act 1977

  ,

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  ,

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  ,

  Privacy Act 1988

  ,

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and 5 other Acts to implement recommendations from the Inquiry into Australian Intelligence Agencies (the Flood Inquiry) and reviews of the

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  that require legislative amendment, including: extending the terms of reference of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD (PJCAAD) to include all Australian intelligence agencies; clarifying the roles and functions of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), including in relation to communication of incidentally obtained intelligence and ministerial authorisation of intelligence collection; giving legislative basis to the functions and ministerial accountabilities of the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation; extending and clarifying the functions of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security; and increasing the size of the PJCAAD and changing its name to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to provide additional funding over three years to extend the activities under the Sporting Chance program. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to appropriate additional funding to enable the employment of 200 additional teachers in Northern Territory Indigenous communities affected by the Northern Territory Emergency Response. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (2008 Budget Measures) Bill 2008

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  Date

  29 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to appropriate additional funding for Indigenous students to: expand intensive literacy and numeracy programs; enable teachers to develop individual learning plans; and establish three new boarding accommodation facilities in the Northern Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (Cape York Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to appropriate additional funding to enable Indigenous students in certain Cape York communities to access the Making Up for Lost Time in Literacy (MULTILIT) program and for students’ parents to establish Student Education Trusts to finance their children’s education. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to appropriate additional funding for Indigenous students through: the expansion of the Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme and Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme; infrastructure funding for boarding school facilities; and where education providers agree, the conversion of Community Development Employment Projects program places into ongoing jobs in the education sector. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to appropriate funding for the 2006 to 2008 calendar years for: additional tutorial assistance for Indigenous school, vocational and technical education students; school-based sporting academies and related activities for Indigenous students; the Indigenous Youth Festivals component of the Community Festivals for Health Promotion programme; and activities addressing substance abuse by Indigenous youth in remote regions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to: appropriate additional funding to provide tutorial assistance to Indigenous students who move away from their remote communities to attend school; and transfer transitional assistance funding for independent Indigenous vocational education and training providers to appropriations under the proposed

  Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to: appropriate funding for the period 1 January 2005 to 30 June 2009 for the: Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Programme, Indigenous Education Direct Assistance Programme, continuation of the “away-from-base” element of ABSTUDY, Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme, and Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme; specify commitments and conditions, including financial and educational accountability conditions, that must be included in funding agreements under the Act; and repeal a spent transitional provision. Also repeals the

  Indigenous Education (Supplementary Assistance) Act 1989

  and contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum