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TOTAL RESULTS: 36
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- Date
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26 May 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts
- Summary
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Amends the
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989
in relation to: establishing a civil penalties regime; powers of inspectors; evidential material procedures; funding from the Ozone Account; and technical and administrative changes.
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- Date
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11 Mar 2010
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah
- Summary
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Amends the:
Ombudsman Act 1976
to establish the Education Ombudsman as a separate office within the office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to deal with complaints about the domestic and international education sector; and Migration Act 1958
and Privacy Act 1988
to make consequential amendments.
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- Date
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Resources and Energy
- Summary
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Act 2003
to provide transitional arrangements until 31 December 2012 to enable safety levies relating to pipelines in designated coastal waters to be collected in certain states and the Northern Territory.
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- Date
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10 Feb 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Resources and Energy
- Summary
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
in relation to: registration fees; functions of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority; multiple titleholders of petroleum titles; strict liability offences; occupational health and safety duties of titleholders; and transitional and technical amendments.
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- Date
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26 Nov 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the:
Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991
to provide that the manufacture, supply, installation, design and safe use of lifts are regulated; Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
to: restore Comcare’s access to the Consolidated Revenue Fund to pay compensation claims for diseases with long latency periods; re-instate workers’ compensation claims arising from off-site recess injuries; allow for compensation for medical expenses to be paid when payment of compensation benefits is suspended; and set time limits within which claims must be determined; and Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991
, Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act 1993
and Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992
to make amendments consequent on the commencement of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003
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- Date
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15 Aug 2007
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Industry, Tourism and Resources
- Summary
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum Act 2006
to: convert certain geodetic data references of area descriptions to Geocentric Datum of Australia (GOA94); remove certain ministerial emergency powers in part of Bass Strait; and make technical corrections.
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- Date
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09 Mar 2005
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991
to exclude Commonwealth employers and employees from the application of the ACT industrial manslaughter laws and any other similar industrial manslaughter law enacted by a State or Territory in the future.
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- Date
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01 Apr 2004
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
- Summary
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Amends the
Occupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Act 1991
to exclude Commonwealth employers and employees from the application of the ACT industrial manslaughter laws and any other similar industrial manslaughter law enacted by a State or Territory in the future.
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- Date
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21 Sep 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Resources and Energy
- Summary
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Amends the
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006
to enable the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority to issue a direction to require a petroleum titleholder to remediate the effects of a significant offshore petroleum incident within a title area that has caused, or may cause, an escape of petroleum.
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- Date
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13 Sep 2011
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
- Summary
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Part of a package of 18 bills to implement a carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995
to: apply, in addition to existing levies imposed by the Act, an equivalent carbon charge to the import of synthetic greenhouse gases (SCGs) and equipment which contains SCG; provide for exemptions from the levy or the carbon price component of the levy in certain circumstances; and amend the long title of the Act.
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