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TOTAL RESULTS: 54
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- Date
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27 Nov 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Environment, Heritage and the Arts
- Summary
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Establishes a resale royalty right for visual artists and an accompanying statutory scheme. The resale royalty right will entitle visual artists to a royalty payment on the sale price of any commercial resale of their original works of art valued over $1,000, be inalienable and endure for the life of the artist plus 70 years.
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- Date
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11 Mar 2004
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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LUNDY, Sen Kate
- Summary
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Amends the
Copyright Act 1968
to establish a Resale Royalty Scheme for the visual arts which will provide for a collecting society authorised to receive moneys on behalf of artists whose original work is resold through an art market intermediary.
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- Date
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30 Jun 1999
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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- Date
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24 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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MILNE, Sen Christine
- Summary
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The bill: requires the minister to develop a scheme to support solar hot water systems and heat pump hot water systems by 1 July 2011; requires the minister to ensure the phasing-out of electric resistance water heaters by 30 June 2012; and amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to require that the number of renewable energy certificates (RECs) created by solar hot water systems, heat pump hot water systems and ‘phantom RECs’ must be added to the subsequent year’s renewable energy target.
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- Date
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14 Feb 2008
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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ALLISON, Lyn
- Summary
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Amends the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001 to expand interim targets by increasing the renewable energy power percentages from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2020.
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- Date
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17 Jun 2004
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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LEES, Meg
- Summary
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Increases the mandatory renewable energy target from 2 per cent to 3.5 per cent.
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- Date
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27 Nov 2008
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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MILNE, Sen Christine
- Summary
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Amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to increase the mandatory renewable energy target from 9,500GWh to 45,000GWh and require the minister to review the targets annually.
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- Date
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18 Aug 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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OAKESHOTT, Rob, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to establish a national feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme to provide financial support for the commercialisation of prospective renewable energy technologies by providing: that the minister sets and reviews a FiT rate for renewable energy technology and a FiT levy rate to fund payments under the scheme; that qualifying generators be allowed to connect and feed into the grid; that the Renewable Energy Regulator establish a Feed-in-Tariff Register; and for the preparation and tabling of an independent report on the operation of the scheme.
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- Date
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11 Nov 2008
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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MILNE, Sen Christine
- Summary
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Amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to establish a national feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme to provide financial support for the commercialisation of prospective renewable energy technologies by providing: that the minister sets and reviews a FiT rate for renewable energy technology and a FiT levy rate to fund payments under the scheme; that qualifying generators be allowed to connect and feed into the grid; that the Renewable Energy Regulator establish a Feed-in-Tariff Register; and for the preparation and tabling of an independent report on the operation of the scheme.
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- Date
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17 Sep 2009
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BOSWELL, Sen Ron
- Summary
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Amends the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
to require regulations to be made to determine that food processing activities, to the extent that they are trade exposed, be given a 90 per cent partial exemption from the additional renewable source electricity acquisition obligation for 2010 and later years.
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