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06 Jul 2011
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House of Representatives
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Part of a package of three bills to establish a horse disease response levy, the bill: enables the collection and administration of a horse disease response levy on manufactured horse feed and worm treatments for horses; imposes penalties for unpaid levies and the remission of any penalties for late payments; enables the collection of information and documents as specified by the Commonwealth; provides for entry, search and seizure powers; requires the minister to review the levy mechanism every five years unless the levies are active at the time the review is due.
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26 May 2011
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: remove the annual caps on Commonwealth Grant Scheme funding; change the way in which higher education providers are eligible for that funding; abolish the student learning entitlement; require higher education providers to enter into mission-based compacts with the Commonwealth; and require higher education providers to uphold free intellectual inquiry in relation to learning, teaching and research.
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10 Feb 2011
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to make administrative changes to the FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP programs by: requiring the minister to be satisfied that a body corporate is ‘fit and proper’; providing flexibility in the ‘principal purpose’ requirements; enabling the minister to give qualified approvals; providing for procedural fairness before a provider’s approval is suspended; and including new decisions which are subject to review.
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25 Nov 2010
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House of Representatives
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Human Services
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Amends: the
Medicare Australia Act 1973
and Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency Act 1997
to: abolish Medicare Australia and Centrelink; abolish the positions of the Chief Executive Officers of these organisations; provide for the functions of the agencies and the CEOs to be integrated into the Department of Human Services (DHS); and amend the long and short titles of the Acts; the Medicare Australia Act 1973
in relation to patient notification when medical records are seized but not examined; the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988
to abolish the position of Child Support Registrar and provide for the functions of that position to be integrated into the DHS; and 36 Acts to make consequential amendments.
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17 Nov 2010
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to: enable the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia to require certain documents to be produced by a medical practitioner during a compliance audit; and provide that a practitioner unable to substantiate an amount paid for a service may be liable to pay a penalty.
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20 Oct 2010
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House of Representatives
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Health and Ageing
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Amends the
Health Insurance Act 1973
to allow patients to take a pathology request to an approved pathology practitioner or authority of their choice.
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20 Oct 2010
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House of Representatives
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Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to revise the maximum funding amounts: under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme to provide for the transition to a student centred funding system; for other grants to provide a reduction in funding for the Australian and Learning Teaching Council and cease the Graduate Skills Assessment Program; and to increase the maximum grants payable for Commonwealth scholarships.
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20 Oct 2010
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House of Representatives
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Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations
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Amends the
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to increase the loan fee for FEE-HELP for fee paying undergraduate students to 25 per cent.
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30 Sep 2010
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Attorney-General
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Introduced with the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010, the bill amends the:
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975
to: include the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission as an ex officio member of the Administrative Review Council (ARC); and increase the quorum of the ARC from four to five members; and Legislative Instruments Act 2003
to require explanatory statements for disallowable legislative instruments to contain a statement of compatibility.
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30 Sep 2010
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House of Representatives
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Attorney-General
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Introduced with the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010, the bill: establishes the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; provides for the powers, proceedings and functions of the committee; introduces a requirement for statements of compatibility to be prepared for all bills and disallowable legislative instruments; and contains a regulation making power.
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