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• Drink Container Recycling Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  FIELDING, Sen Steve 

  Summary

  The bill: requires producers, distributors and industry groups to submit to the minister a beverage container stewardship plan to manage the collection and recycling of beverage containers; sets minimum recovery rates for containers; requires public consultation on draft plans; and provides for annual reporting. 

  Bill

• Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Customs) Charge) Validation Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Call Register Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Do Not Call Register Act 2006

  to: provide that individuals can register their preference not to receive telemarketing calls or marketing faxes; and enable the minister to specify a longer period of time for which numbers remain in force on the register and to reinstate numbers that have lapsed on the register at the end of the current three-year registration period; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments, including enabling the Australian Communications and Media Authority to develop an industry standard for the fax marketing industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Call Register Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Do Not Call Register (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006, the bill establishes a framework to regulate and minimise unsolicited telemarketing calls, including: establishing a Do Not Call Register which will allow individuals to register their home and mobile numbers on the register for a period of 3 years; establishing a complaints mechanism; and providing for a civil penalties regime. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Call Register (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Do Not Call Register Bill 2006, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  ,

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  and

  Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997

  to: provide for a regulatory framework for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to investigate complaints and enforce the civil penalties regime which will apply to the making of unsolicited telemarketing calls; and enable the development of relevant industry codes and ACMA standards relating to telemarketing calls. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Services Amendment (Improved Quality Assurance) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Reforms Commonwealth-funded employment services and rehabilitation programs provided to people with disabilities by establishing a new quality assurance system which will make funding of employment services and approval of rehabilitation programs dependent on a service provider being certified by an industry-based certification body as meeting relevant standards. Also contains transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Services Amendment (Improved Quality Assurance) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Aug 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to remove the 'dominant reason' test; the

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  ,

  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to: provide an explicit and positive duty to make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities (which responds to the 2003 High Court decision of Purvis); respond to the Full Federal Court case of Forest in relation to carers, assistants and aids; clarify the defence of unjustifiable hardship; and replace the 'proportionality test' in the definition of indirect discrimination; 24 Acts to reflect the name change of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to the Australian Human Rights Commission; and the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  and

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  to allow the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, in consultation with the National Transport Secretariat, to grant exemptions from disability standards dealing with public transportation services and facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum