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- Start of Business
- PRIVILEGE
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BILLS
- Schools Assistance Amendment Bill 2011
- Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 6) Bill 2011
- Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011
- National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill 2011
- Military Justice (Interim Measures) Amendment Bill 2011
- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
- CONDOLENCES
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Occupational Health and Safety
(Abbott, Tony, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP) -
Economy
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Foreign Affairs
(Bishop, Julie, MP, Rudd, Kevin, MP) -
Budget
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Carbon Pricing
(Pyne, Christopher, MP) -
Asylum Seekers
(Mitchell, Rob, MP, Bowen, Chris, MP) -
Carbon Pricing
(Truss, Warren, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(Neumann, Shayne, MP, Crean, Simon, MP) -
Carbon Pricing
(Tehan, Dan, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Native Title
(Katter, Bob, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP) -
Paid Parental Leave
(Vamvakinou, Maria, MP, Macklin, Jenny, MP) -
Carbon Pricing
(Chester, Darren, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Health
(Burke, Anna, MP, Roxon, Nicola, MP) -
Asylum Seekers
(Morrison, Scott, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP) -
Australian Natural Disasters
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Asylum Seekers
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Education
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Border Protection
(Keenan, Michael, MP, Gillard, Julia, MP) -
Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement
(Lyons, Geoff, MP, Emerson, Craig, MP)
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Occupational Health and Safety
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS
- PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
- MOTIONS
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- COMMITTEES
- DOCUMENTS
- MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
- MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS
- MOTIONS
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BILLS
- Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Amendment Bill 2011
- Product Stewardship Bill 2011
- Combating the Financing of People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2011
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy (Collection) Bill 2011
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Bill 2011, Aged Care Amendment Bill 2011, Customs Amendment (Export Controls and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2011, Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (MRCA Supplement) Bill 2011
- Customs Amendment (Serious Drugs Detection) Bill 2011
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Election Commitments and Other Measures) Bill 2011
- Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2011, Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Oil Transfers) Bill 2011
- COMMITTEES
- BILLS
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ADJOURNMENT
- Scott, Bruce, MP
- Foreign Investment
- Mining
- Valedictory
- Disability
- Kids of Macarthur Health Foundation
- Macartney, Ms Tess, Atkin, Ms Anne
- National Broadband Network
- International Development Assistance
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Moreton Electorate: Muslim Community
- High-Speed Rail
- Lyne Electorate: Floods
- NOTICES
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Main Committee
- Start of Business
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CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
- Cowper Electorate: Floods
- Rotary Club of West Torrens
- Latrobe Valley Airport
- Primary Industry Centre for Science Education
- Taylor, Mr John
- Robertson Electorate: Five Lands Walk
- Egypt
- Shortland Electorate: Youth at Risk Program
- Longman Electorate: Shekinah Centre
- Lindsay Electorate: St Mary's Public School
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BILLS
- Product Stewardship Bill 2011
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Higher Education Support Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2011
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Second Reading
- Ellis, Kate, MP
- Ley, Sussan, MP
- Thomson, Craig, MP
- Hawke, Alex, MP
- Stone, Dr Sharman, MP
- Secker, Patrick, MP
- Cheeseman, Darren, MP
- Marino, Nola, MP
- Neumann, Shayne, MP
- Gambaro, Teresa, MP
- Billson, Bruce, MP
- Billson, Bruce, MP
- Ciobo, Steven, MP
- Tehan, Dan, MP
- Wyatt, Ken, MP
- Andrews, Karen, MP
- Slipper, Peter, MP
- Ellis, Kate, MP
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Second Reading
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QUESTIONS IN WRITING
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After-Hours Medical Services (Question No. 120)
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Ministers: Staff, Capital Works and Acquisitions (Question Nos 241 and 255)
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Computers in Schools (Question No. 320)
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Imports: Narcotic, Psychotropic and Precursor Substances (Question No. 323)
(Fletcher, Paul, MP, Roxon, Nicola, MP)
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After-Hours Medical Services (Question No. 120)
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Ms KATE ELLIS (Adelaide—Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare and Minister for the Status of Women) (10:54): I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and I move:
That this bill be now read a second time.
The bill will introduce a number of streamlining measures to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (the Act) to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and to maintain the ongoing integrity of the government's income contingent loan programs for the higher education and vocational education and training (VET) sectors, namely FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP respectively. It is now apparent that some aspects of these programs require refinement to reflect current higher education and VET sector arrangements.
The bill will also ensure consistency with other Commonwealth regulatory frameworks including the proposed National VET Regulator expected to be established by April 2011. Furthermore, the bill will better position the government to implement its 2010 budget measures announced in the Skills for Sustainable Growth Strategy, in particular, its commitment to a National Entitlement to a Quality Training Place by 1 July 2011.
FEE-HELP is available to eligible full-fee-paying higher education students and VET FEE-HELP is available to eligible full-fee-paying and certain state government subsidised VET students studying in higher level education or training, and provides a loan for all or part of a student's tuition costs. This assistance is aimed at encouraging students to take up higher education and higher level skill qualifications by reducing the financial barriers associated with study.
The bill is aimed at ensuring quality education providers can apply for and be approved as providers under the act to be able to offer FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP assistance. The changes will simplify administrative requirements delivering efficiencies to both providers and the Commonwealth, to improve the Commonwealth's ability to manage provider risk, to increase the rate of provider approval, and therefore increase the number of students able to access income contingent loans through quality providers in both the higher education and VET sectors.
I commend the bill to the House.