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• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol Ratification) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALBANESE, Anthony, MP 

  Summary

  Requires the Australian Government to effect Australia’s obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australia-Japan Foundation (Repeal and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill repeals the

  Australia-Japan Foundation Act 1976

  to abolish the Australia-Japan Foundation and enable it to be re-established as a non-statutory, unincorporated bilateral body within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for service of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2005-2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2005-2006

  and

  Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2005-2006

  , for the service of the year ending on 30 June 2006. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2005-2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by

  Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2005-2006

  and

  Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2005-2006

  , for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2006. 

  Bill

• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisations Act 1987

  to: allow the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) to condition, manage and store radioactive material and radioactive waste other than that which may arise directly from ANSTO’s activities; ensure that ANSTO is able to provide assistance to State and Territory jurisdictions in the event of an incident, including a terrorist or criminal incident, involving radiological material; clarify ANSTO’s authority to accept and manage radioactive waste arising from overseas reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from ANSTO’s research reactor; and allow ANSTO to fully participate in the establishment and operation of the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Facility in the Northern Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill amends the

  Australian Research Council Act 2001

  to: retire the Board of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and transfer the majority of the Board’s functions and responsibilities to the CEO of the ARC; establish other new governance arrangements; and update annual funding caps to reflect revised forward estimates and the transfer of the Commercialisation Training Scheme to the Department of Education, Science and Training. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia's Skills Needs) Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Vocational and Technical Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’s Skills Needs) Act 2005

  to: bring forward funding from 2008 and 2009 to 2006 and 2007 to meet expenditure for the Australian Technical Colleges initiative; and include a regulation-making power to allow programme funding to be varied to another programme year without amendment of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum