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      • Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Financial Transparency) Bill 2020
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      • Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Improving Supports for At Risk Participants) Bill 2021
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Consistent Waiting Periods for New Migrants) Bill 2021
      • Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 1) Bill 2021
      • Effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021
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      • Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance Administration) Bill 2020
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Extension of Coronavirus Support) Bill 2020
      • Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020 and Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 2) Bill 2020
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Coronavirus and Other Measures) Bill 2020
      • National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2020
      • Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia
      • Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia
      • Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Bill 2020
      • Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia’s Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Bill 2020
      • Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019
      • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment (Assisted Reproductive Treatment Statistics) Bill 2019
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019
      • Human Services Amendment (Photographic Identification and Fraud Prevention) Bill 2019
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Drug Testing Trial) Bill 2019
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Streamlined Governance) Bill 2019
      • Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Bill 2019
      • Effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practised
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019
      • ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout
      • Support for Australia’s thalidomide survivors
      • Accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Maintaining Income Thresholds) Bill 2018
      • Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Bill 2018 and related Bill
      • My Health Record system
      • Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2018
      • My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018
      • Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and related Bills
      • National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018 and related bill
      • Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018
      • Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Drug Testing Trial) Bill 2018
      • Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017 and related bill
      • Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2017 Measures No.1) Bill 2017 and related bill
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017
      • Vaporised Nicotine Products Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payment Integrity) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending Carbon Tax Compensation) Bill 2017
      • Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 and related Bills
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Queensland Commission Income Management Regime) Bill 2017
      • Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017
      • Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Transition Mobility Allowance to the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Bill 2016
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Savings Fund Special Account Bill 2016
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      • National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016
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      • Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2016 [Provisions]
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2015
      • Science of mitochondrial donation and related matters
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Measures) Bill 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Interest Charge) Bill 2016
      • Availability and accessibility of diagnostic imaging equipment around Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Welfare Payment Integrity) Bill 2016
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      • Value and affordability of private health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs
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      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Bill 2015
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      • Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Forum on Food Regulation and Other Measures) Bill 2015
      • Price regulation associated with the Prostheses List Framework
      • Complaints mechanism administered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
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Provisions of the Research Involving Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2002

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Provisions of the Research Involving Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2002

October 2002

© Commonwealth of Australia 2002

ISSN 1440-257

View the report as a single document - (PDF 967KB)


View the report as separate downloadable parts:

Membership of the Committee (PDF 57KB)
 
List of acronyms (PDF 51KB)
 
Chapter 1 - Introduction and background (PDF 143KB)
 
Chapter 2 - stem cell research and human cloning: an overview of scientific aspects (PDF 248KB)
 
Chapter 3 - Ethical issues (PDF 241KB)
 
Chapter 4 - The bill (PDF 310KB)
 
Chapter 5 - International comparisons (PDF 126KB)
 
Qualifying comments (PDF 249KB)
 
Supplementary report in favour of the legislation (PDF 294KB)
 
Additional comments (PDF 77KB)
 
Supplementary comments (PDF 194KB)
 
Appendix 1 - List of public submissions, tabled documents and other additional information authorised for publication by the Committee (PDF 201KB)
 
Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the committee at public hearings (PDF 84KB)
 
Appendix 3 - Council of Australian Governments communique –5 april 2002 (PDF 77KB)
 

 

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    • Making a submission
    • Attending a public hearing
    • Senate committee activity
    • Appropriations, Staffing and Security
    • Community Affairs
      • Additional Estimates 2024-25
      • Annual reports (No. 1 of 2025)
      • Family Law Amendment Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • Annual reports (No. 1 of 2024)
      • Annual reports (No. 2 of 2024)
      • Annual reports (No. 1 of 2023)
      • Annual reports (No. 2 of 2023)
      • Additional Estimates 2023-24
      • Budget Estimates 2025–26
      • Budget Estimates 2024–25
      • Budget Estimates 2023–24
      • Recent reports
      • Review 1
      • Access to diagnosis and treatment for people in Australia with tick-borne diseases
      • Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 [Provisions]
      • Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record—Sharing by Default) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • Aged Care Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • Issues related to menopause and perimenopause
      • Excess Mortality
      • National Health Amendment (Supporting Patient Access to Cheaper Medicines and Other Measures) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024
      • Equitable access to diagnosis and treatment for individuals with rare and less common cancers, including neuroendocrine cancer
      • Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Vaping Reforms) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Military Invalidity Payments Means Testing) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
      • The extent and nature of poverty in Australia
      • Review of legislative instruments on income management
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management Reform) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • Paid Parental Leave Amendment (More Support for Working Families) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • The worsening rental crisis in Australia
      • Assessment and support services for people with ADHD
      • Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023, and the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023
      • Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023 [Provisions] and Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Bill 2023
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Safety Net) Bill 2023
      • Concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports
      • Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023
      • Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review Scheme) Bill 2023
      • Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2022
      • Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Bill 2023 [Provisions] and National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • About this committee
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Incentivising Pensioners to Downsize) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
      • Inspector-General of Aged Care Bill 2023 [Provisions] and the Inspector- General of Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
      • Upcoming hearings
      • Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Bill 2022
      • Universal access to reproductive healthcare
      • Legislation Committee Membership
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Workforce Incentive) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
      • References Committee Membership
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Pensioner and Veteran Workforce Participation) Bill 2022
      • Aged Care Amendment (Implementing Care Reform) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Bill 2022
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
      • Centrelink's compliance program
      • Administration of registration and notifications by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and related entities under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
      • Purpose, intent and adequacy of the Disability Support Pension
      • Provision of general practitioner and related primary health services to outer metropolitan, rural, and regional Australians
      • Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021 [Provisions]
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Workforce Incentive) Bill 2022
      • Social Security Amendment (Improved Child to Adult Transfer for Carer Payment and Carer Allowance) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Portability Extensions) Bill 2021
      • Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021
      • Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2021
      • Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Financial Transparency) Bill 2020
      • Investigations into a possible cancer cluster on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria
      • Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Improving Supports for At Risk Participants) Bill 2021
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Consistent Waiting Periods for New Migrants) Bill 2021
      • Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 1) Bill 2021
      • Effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021
      • Aged Care Amendment (Aged Care Recipient Classification) Bill 2020
      • Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance Administration) Bill 2020
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Extension of Coronavirus Support) Bill 2020
      • Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020 and Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 2) Bill 2020
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Coronavirus and Other Measures) Bill 2020
      • National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2020
      • Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia
      • Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia
      • Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Bill 2020
      • Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Enhancing Australia’s Anti-Doping Capability) Bill 2019
      • Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Bill 2020
      • Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment (Sport Integrity Australia) Bill 2019
      • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment (Assisted Reproductive Treatment Statistics) Bill 2019
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019
      • Human Services Amendment (Photographic Identification and Fraud Prevention) Bill 2019
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Drug Testing Trial) Bill 2019
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Streamlined Governance) Bill 2019
      • Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Bill 2019
      • Effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practised
      • Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019
      • ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout
      • Support for Australia’s thalidomide survivors
      • Accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Maintaining Income Thresholds) Bill 2018
      • Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Bill 2018 and related Bill
      • My Health Record system
      • Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2018
      • My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018
      • Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and related Bills
      • National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018 and related bill
      • Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018
      • Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Bill 2018
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Drug Testing Trial) Bill 2018
      • Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017 and related bill
      • Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2017 Measures No.1) Bill 2017 and related bill
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017
      • Vaporised Nicotine Products Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payment Integrity) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending Carbon Tax Compensation) Bill 2017
      • Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 and related Bills
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Queensland Commission Income Management Regime) Bill 2017
      • Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017
      • Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Transition Mobility Allowance to the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Bill 2016
      • National Disability Insurance Scheme Savings Fund Special Account Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Bill 2016
      • National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2016
      • Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2016 [Provisions]
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2015
      • Science of mitochondrial donation and related matters
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Measures) Bill 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Interest Charge) Bill 2016
      • Availability and accessibility of diagnostic imaging equipment around Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Welfare Payment Integrity) Bill 2016
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2015
      • Value and affordability of private health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs
      • Delivery of outcomes under the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 to build inclusive and accessible communities
      • Future of rugby union in Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Bill 2015
      • Design, scope, cost-benefit analysis, contracts awarded and implementation associated with the Better Management of the Social Welfare System initiative
      • Future of Australia's aged care sector workforce
      • Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment (Forum on Food Regulation and Other Measures) Bill 2015
      • Price regulation associated with the Prostheses List Framework
      • Complaints mechanism administered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
      • Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (More Generous Means Testing for Youth Payments) Bill 2015
      • Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Bill 2015
      • Medical complaints process in Australia
      • Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015
      • Gene Technology Amendment Bill 2015
      • Medical complaints process in Australia
      • Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia
      • Future of Australia’s aged care sector workforce
      • Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme like illness for many Australian patients
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (No. 2) Bill 2015
      • Private Health Insurance Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2014
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2015
      • Health Insurance Amendment (Safety Net) Bill 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015
      • Social Security Legislation Amendment (Debit Card Trial) Bill 2015
      • Health Workforce Australia (Abolition) Bill 2014
      • Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2015
      • Medical Research Future Fund Bill 2015 and Medical Research Future Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2015
      • Social Security Legislation Amendment (Green Army Programme) Bill 2014
      • Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment Bill 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
      • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment and Other Measures) Bill 2015
      • Adequacy of existing residential care arrangements available for young people with severe physical, mental or intellectual disabilities in Australia
      • Availability of new, innovative and specialist cancer drugs in Australia
      • Out of home care
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