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• Student Assistance Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to: close the Student Financial Supplement Scheme to new applications from ABSTUDY students from 1 January 2004 and continue loan repayment arrangements for existing loans; and make a minor technical amendment to extend the regulation-making power relating to notifications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Student Assistance Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to: permit social security, veterans’ and family assistance legislation overpayments to be offset against benefits payable under the Assistance for Isolated Children and ABSTUDY schemes; update certain definitions to reflect that the Aboriginal Overseas Student Assistance Scheme no longer exists; and increase the 7-day notification period, within which students are obliged to notify certain prescribed events, to a 14-day period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Student and Youth Assistance Amendment Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs portfolio 

  Bill

• Structured Finance Support (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of eight bills to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus, the bill establishes the Structured Finance Support (Coronavirus Economic Response) Fund and the Structured Finance Support (Coronavirus Economic Response) Fund Special Account to enable the Commonwealth to make targeted investments in structured finance markets. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory framework, the bill implements three measures relating to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory by: providing for alcohol management plans to be approved by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, and for the minister and the relevant Northern Territory minister to undertake a review within three years on whether alcohol-related harm among aboriginal people has reduced; enabling the Commonwealth to amend Northern Territory legislation by regulation relating to community living areas and town camps to enable private ownership in town camps and flexible long term leasing arrangements for business in community living areas; and providing for a community store licensing scheme to operate for a 10-year period to provide food security for Aboriginal communities. Also requires the minister to facilitate an independent review of the operation of the Act after seven years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory framework, the bill: repeals the

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  and makes certain consequent saving and transitional arrangements; and amends the:

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to: make amendments consequent on the repeal of the

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  ; and enable Land Councils, if requested to do so, to provide assistance to owners of community living areas;

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to: provide that the restriction on prohibited material will continue, with the Minister for Indigenous Affairs responsible for determining to which areas this restriction applies; require the minister to review these restrictions after seven years; and provide for the sunset of the restriction of prohibited material provisions after ten years;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to enable customary law and cultural practice to be considered in bail and sentencing decisions for certain offences; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make an amendment consequent on the repeal of the

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  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 (INSLM); 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;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to include an exemption from civil and criminal liability for defence officials and others for certain computer-related conduct; and

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  to: ensure that the INSLM is able to review counter-terrorism or national security legislation; and make minor amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to 15 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stopping Wind Farms in State Forests Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  GEE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Prohibits a constitutional corporation from constructing, installing or commissioning a windfarm in a state forest. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stop Dumping on the Great Barrier Reef Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATERS, Sen Larissa 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981

  to prohibit offshore dumping of dredge spoil within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; and provide that dumping which has been approved after 9 December 2013 cannot proceed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SIEWERT, Sen Rachel 

  Summary

  Establishes a Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal to decide and make recommendations on claims for reparation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum