A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
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TOTAL RESULTS: 351
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23 Jul 2025
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
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Amends the
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to: strengthen powers to take action in relation to child care subsidy (CCS) providers based on quality and safety; expand powers to publicise action taken against CCS providers; broaden powers of entry to enable authorised persons to enter premises without consent and streamline the process for seeking entry under a monitoring warrant; enable the delegation of powers to appoint an expert to conduct an independent audit of a large child care provider; and require Family Day Care and In Home Care providers to collect CCS gap fees directly from families.
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05 Feb 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
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Amends the
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
and A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
to replace the Child Care Subsidy activity test with a guaranteed minimum of 72 hours per fortnight of subsidised early childhood education and care for all families, regardless of the time spent on recognised participation types, and a guaranteed 100 hour entitlement per fortnight for parents caring for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child.
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30 May 2013
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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School Education, Early Childhood and Youth
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Establishes the Early Years Quality Fund Special Account to provide $300 million over two years to approved centre based long day care services in the form of grants to be used exclusively for the remuneration of employees and other employment-related costs and expenses.
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19 Oct 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Social Services
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Establishes the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee to provide advice related to the Commonwealth Government’s policies, programs and responsibilities for enhancing economic inclusion and participation.
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07 Oct 2020
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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Amends the
Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020
to enable the Treasurer to make rules to provide for a coronavirus economic response payment in relation to the JobMaker Hiring Credit scheme, which will operate for the period from 7 October 2020 to 6 October 2022.
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30 Nov 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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FARUQI, Sen Mehreen
- Summary
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Amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
, Social Security Act 1991
, Student Assistance Act 1973
, Trade Support Loans Act 2014
and VET Student Loans Act 2016
to remove indexation on certain education and training loans; and Higher Education Support Act 2003
, Social Security Act 1991
and Student Assistance Act 1973
to: define 'median wage'; and raise the minimum repayment income and amend the percentage of income a person is liable to repay the Commonwealth for certain education and training loans.
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28 Mar 2018
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education and Training
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Introduced with the Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2018, the bill amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
and VET Student Loans Act 2016
to separate VET student loan debts from other forms of Higher Education Loan Program debts and establish VET student loans as a separate income contingent loan; and VET Student Loans Act 2016
to allow the courses and loan caps determinations made by the minister to incorporate, by reference, any matter contained in an instrument or other writing as in force from time to time. Also makes consequential and contingent amendments to 10 Acts.
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16 Feb 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education and Training
- Summary
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Amends the:
Ombudsman Act 1976
to: establish the office of the VET Student Loans Ombudsman; prescribe the functions of the ombudsman and the manner in which he or she is able to perform those functions; allow for the ombudsman to receive and investigate complaints, investigate complaints on his or her own initiative and refer complaints to other bodies; require the ombudsman to report to VET student loan scheme providers in certain circumstances; require the minister to table reports about VET loan scheme providers in the Parliament if requested to do so by the ombudsman; require the ombudsman to provide annual and certain other reports to the minister; enable the ombudsman to provide evidence to a VET student loan provider principal executive officer that a VET student loan officer of the provider has engaged in misconduct; VET Student Loans Act 2016
to: allow the minster to specify, by legislative instrument, that the ombudsman is an external dispute resolution scheme for the purposes of the Act; and provide that all approved course providers are deemed to be members of the ombudsman if it is specified as an external dispute resolution scheme by the minister; and Australian Research Council Act 2001
to: update indexation against appropriation funding caps for existing legislated amounts; and include an additional forward estimate amount for the financial year starting on 1 July 2019.
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22 Jun 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education and Training
- Summary
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Repeals the
Australian Research Council (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2001
, Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’s Skills Needs) Act 2005
, Skilling Australia’s Workforce Act 2005
and Skilling Australia’s Workforce (Repeal and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005
. Also makes a consequential amendment to the Social Security Act 1991
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- Date
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16 Oct 2019
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Education
- Summary
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Amends the:
Higher Education Support Act 2003
to: increase the combined Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) loan limit to $152 700 for students undertaking eligible aviation courses with approved providers on or after 1 January 2020; enable the minister to determine the aviation courses for which the higher HELP loan limit will apply; reduce indexation on a person’s outstanding accumulated HELP debt while they are teaching in a school in a very remote location of Australia; and provide for all or part of a person’s HELP debt associated with their initial teacher education course to be remitted after they have undertaken an equivalent of four years’ full time work in a very remote location of Australia; and Higher Education Support Act 2003
, Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Act 2018
and VET Student Loans Act 2016
to allow the Department of Human Services restricted access to higher education data and VET student loans data in order to administer student benefits.
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