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Home Parliamentary Business Committees Senate Committees Senate Standing Committees on Education and Employment Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016, and the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2016 Report RECOMMENDATIONS

RECOMMENDATIONS

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Making a submission
Attending a public hearing
Senate committee activity
Appropriations, Staffing and Security
Community Affairs
Economics
Education and Employment
- Recent reports
- Additional Estimates 2023-24
- Additional Estimates 2024-25
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2024)
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2025)
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2023)
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2024)
- Better and Fairer Schools (Funding and Reform) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Budget Estimates 2024–25
- Budget Estimates 2025-26
- Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Tertiary Education Legislation Amendment (There For Education, Not Profit) Bill 2025
- Free TAFE Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025 [Provisions]
- Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2023)
- Fair Work Amendment Bill 2024
- EEC Leg Report for Report Builder Testing
- Completed inquiries and reports
- Australian Research Council Amendment (Review Response) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No.2) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- The issue of increasing disruption in Australian school classrooms
- Potential impacts of the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave Scheme on small businesses and their employees
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Upcoming Hearings
- National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Data Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2023)
- COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 and the Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023
- Education and Other Legislation Amendment (Abolishing Indexation and Raising the Minimum Repayment Income for Education and Training Loans) Bill 2022
- The national trend of school refusal and related matters
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022
- Budget Estimates 2023-24
- Regulation of the relationship between car manufacturers and car dealers in Australia (formerly General Motors Holden Operations in Australia)
- Role of the Committee
- Fair Work Amendment (Equal Pay for Equal Work) Bill 2022
- Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022
- Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022 [Provisions] and the Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022
- Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018
- Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2021 [Provisions]
- Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020
- Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020
- Payment Times Reporting Bill 2020 [Provisions] and Payment Times Reporting (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Student Identifiers Amendment (Enhanced Student Permissions) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019 and the Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Building on the Child Care Package) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Amendment (Right to Request Casual Conversion) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- The appropriateness and effectiveness of the objectives, design, implementation and evaluation of jobactive
- The role of Commonwealth, state and territory Governments in addressing the high rates of mental health conditions experienced by first responders, emergency service workers and volunteers
- The exploitation of general and specialist cleaners working in retail chains for contracting or subcontracting cleaning companies
- Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2018 and Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2018
- The framework surrounding the prevention, investigation and prosecution of industrial deaths in Australia
- Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018
- Work health and safety of workers in the offshore petroleum industry
- Education and Other Legislation Amendment (VET Student Loan Debt Separation) Bill 2018 and Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2018
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Executive Remuneration) Bill 2017
- Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 [provisions]
- Construction Industry Amendment (Protecting Witnesses) Bill 2015
- Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2017, and the Migration (Skilling Australians Fund) Charges Bill 2017 [provisions]
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2017
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2017 [provisions]
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2]
- Fair Work Amendment (Pay Protection) Bill 2017
- Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill 2017
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Improving the Comcare Scheme) Bill 2015
- Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Repeal of 4 Yearly Reviews and Other Measures) Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Corrupting Benefits) Bill 2017
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015 and the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015
- Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Amendment Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Remaining 2014 Measures) Bill 2015
- Seafarers Safety and Compensation Bills package
- Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015
- Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP Reform) Bill 2015
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Jobs Path: Prepare, Trial, Hire) Bill 2016
- VET Student Loans Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, and VET Student Loans (Charges) Bill 2016
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 and related bill
- Fair Work Amendment (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014
- Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016 [provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016, and the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2016
  - Report
  - Corrigendum
  - Terms of Reference
  - Submissions
  - Media Releases
  - Public Hearings
  - Additional Documents
  - Government Response
- Tafe SA
- Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Australian Workers) Bill 2016
- Penalty Rates
- Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act
- Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015
- Impact of the Government's Workplace Bargaining Policy and approach to Commonwealth public sector bargaining
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 [No.2] and the Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No.2]
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Further Strengthening Job Seeker Compliance) Bill 2015
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2015
- The feasibility of, and options for, creating a national long service standard, and the portability of long service and other entitlements.
- Current levels of access and attainment for students with disability in the school system, and the impact on students and families associated with inadequate levels of support
- Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
- The operation, regulation and funding of private vocational education and training (VET) providers in Australia
- Fair Work Amendment (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014
- Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014
- The principles of the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014, and related matters
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Job Seeker Compliance Framework) Bill 2014
- Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2014
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014
- Provisions of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2014
- Provisions of the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Green Army Programme) Bill 2014
- Provisions of schedules 6 and 9 of the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013
- The delivery of quality and affordable early childhood education and care services
- The immediate future of the childcare sector in Australia
- Technical and further education in Australia
- The effectiveness of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013
- Government's approach to re-establishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission
- Additional HSU inquiry documents published by order of the Senate
Environment and Communications
Finance and Public Administration
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Measuring Outcomes for First Nations Communities
PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
Privileges
Procedure
Publications
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
Scrutiny of Bills
Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation
Selection of Bills
Senators' Interests
Senate committee evidence, parliamentary privilege and Royal Commissions
Senate Committee Membership
Senate Committees: Upcoming Public Hearings
Today's public hearings
Recent Senate Committee reports
Former Senate Committees
Government responses outstanding to committee reports

Recommendation 1

2.101 The committee recommends that both bills be passed.

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In this section

Making a submission
Attending a public hearing
Senate committee activity
Appropriations, Staffing and Security
Community Affairs
Economics
Education and Employment
- Recent reports
- Additional Estimates 2023-24
- Additional Estimates 2024-25
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2024)
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2025)
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2023)
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2024)
- Better and Fairer Schools (Funding and Reform) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Budget Estimates 2024–25
- Budget Estimates 2025-26
- Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Tertiary Education Legislation Amendment (There For Education, Not Profit) Bill 2025
- Free TAFE Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025 [Provisions]
- Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024 [Provisions]
- Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers
- Annual reports (No. 2 of 2023)
- Fair Work Amendment Bill 2024
- EEC Leg Report for Report Builder Testing
- Completed inquiries and reports
- Australian Research Council Amendment (Review Response) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No.2) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- The issue of increasing disruption in Australian school classrooms
- Potential impacts of the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave Scheme on small businesses and their employees
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Education Legislation Amendment (Startup Year and Other Measures) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Jobs and Skills Australia Amendment Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Upcoming Hearings
- National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Data Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2023 [Provisions]
- Annual reports (No. 1 of 2023)
- COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 and the Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023
- Education and Other Legislation Amendment (Abolishing Indexation and Raising the Minimum Repayment Income for Education and Training Loans) Bill 2022
- The national trend of school refusal and related matters
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022
- Budget Estimates 2023-24
- Regulation of the relationship between car manufacturers and car dealers in Australia (formerly General Motors Holden Operations in Australia)
- Role of the Committee
- Fair Work Amendment (Equal Pay for Equal Work) Bill 2022
- Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022
- Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022 [Provisions] and the Jobs and Skills Australia (National Skills Commissioner Repeal) Bill 2022 [Provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022
- Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018
- Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2021 [Provisions]
- Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020
- Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020
- Payment Times Reporting Bill 2020 [Provisions] and Payment Times Reporting (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Australian Education Amendment (Direct Measure of Income) Bill 2020 [Provisions]
- Student Identifiers Amendment (Enhanced Student Permissions) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019 and the Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Building on the Child Care Package) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- Fair Work Amendment (Right to Request Casual Conversion) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
- The appropriateness and effectiveness of the objectives, design, implementation and evaluation of jobactive
- The role of Commonwealth, state and territory Governments in addressing the high rates of mental health conditions experienced by first responders, emergency service workers and volunteers
- The exploitation of general and specialist cleaners working in retail chains for contracting or subcontracting cleaning companies
- Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2018 and Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2018
- The framework surrounding the prevention, investigation and prosecution of industrial deaths in Australia
- Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018
- Work health and safety of workers in the offshore petroleum industry
- Education and Other Legislation Amendment (VET Student Loan Debt Separation) Bill 2018 and Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Amendment Bill 2018
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Executive Remuneration) Bill 2017
- Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (Student Loan Sustainability) Bill 2018 [provisions]
- Construction Industry Amendment (Protecting Witnesses) Bill 2015
- Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2017, and the Migration (Skilling Australians Fund) Charges Bill 2017 [provisions]
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2017
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2017 [provisions]
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 [No. 2]
- Fair Work Amendment (Pay Protection) Bill 2017
- Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill 2017
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Improving the Comcare Scheme) Bill 2015
- Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Repeal of 4 Yearly Reviews and Other Measures) Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Corrupting Benefits) Bill 2017
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015 and the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2015
- Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Amendment Bill 2017
- Fair Work Amendment (Remaining 2014 Measures) Bill 2015
- Seafarers Safety and Compensation Bills package
- Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015
- Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP Reform) Bill 2015
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Jobs Path: Prepare, Trial, Hire) Bill 2016
- VET Student Loans Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, and VET Student Loans (Charges) Bill 2016
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 and related bill
- Fair Work Amendment (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014
- Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016 [provisions]
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2016, and the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2016
  - Report
  - Corrigendum
  - Terms of Reference
  - Submissions
  - Media Releases
  - Public Hearings
  - Additional Documents
  - Government Response
- Tafe SA
- Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Australian Workers) Bill 2016
- Penalty Rates
- Corporate Avoidance of the Fair Work Act
- Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015
- Impact of the Government's Workplace Bargaining Policy and approach to Commonwealth public sector bargaining
- Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 [No.2] and the Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No.2]
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Further Strengthening Job Seeker Compliance) Bill 2015
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill 2015
- The feasibility of, and options for, creating a national long service standard, and the portability of long service and other entitlements.
- Current levels of access and attainment for students with disability in the school system, and the impact on students and families associated with inadequate levels of support
- Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
- The operation, regulation and funding of private vocational education and training (VET) providers in Australia
- Fair Work Amendment (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014
- Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014
- The principles of the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014, and related matters
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Job Seeker Compliance Framework) Bill 2014
- Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2014
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014
- Provisions of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2014
- Provisions of the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Green Army Programme) Bill 2014
- Provisions of schedules 6 and 9 of the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013
- The delivery of quality and affordable early childhood education and care services
- The immediate future of the childcare sector in Australia
- Technical and further education in Australia
- The effectiveness of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2013
- Government's approach to re-establishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission
- Additional HSU inquiry documents published by order of the Senate
Environment and Communications
Finance and Public Administration
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Measuring Outcomes for First Nations Communities
PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
Privileges
Procedure
Publications
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
Scrutiny of Bills
Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation
Selection of Bills
Senators' Interests
Senate committee evidence, parliamentary privilege and Royal Commissions
Senate Committee Membership
Senate Committees: Upcoming Public Hearings
Today's public hearings
Recent Senate Committee reports
Former Senate Committees
Government responses outstanding to committee reports

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