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Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services BACKGROUND NOTE 22 April 2013 The house that ASIO built—a short history of the new Central Office of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Nigel Brew Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Construction timeline .............................................................................................................................. 6 Building

ISSN 1328-8091 BILLS DIGEST NO. 77, 2012-13 13 February 2013 Completion of Kakadu National Park (Koongarra Project Area Repeal) Bill 2013 Moira Coombs Law and Bills Digest Section Bill McCormick Science, Technology, Environment and Resources Section Contents Purpose of the Bill ................................................................................................................................... 2 Background ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Committee consideration ....................................................................................................................... 7

ISSN 1328-8091 BILLS DIGEST NO. 59, 2012-13 30 January 2013 Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 6) Bill 2012 Bernard Pulle Economics Section Paige Darby Economics Section Contents Purpose of the Bill ................................................................................................................................... 6 Structure of the Bill ................................................................................................................................. 7 Committee consideration ....................................................................................................................... 7 Schedule 1—Tax treatment of native title

JANUARY 8, 2013 Can single parent families survive on Newstart? It might depend on where they live Source: Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet There has been considerable media coverage in recent days about the implementation of the new income support arrangements applying from 1 January for single parents whose

ISSN 1328-8091 Parliamentof Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Purpose .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 3 The withholding tax regime for entities resident in ‘information exchange countries’ ..................... 3 The introduction of the new withholding tax regime ................................................................... 3 Amended definition of ‘managed investment trust’ ..................................................................... 4 Increase of the withholding tax

ISSN 1328-8091 Parliamentof Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Purpose .................................................................................................................................................... 2 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Basis of policy commitment ................................................................................................................ 3 Types of scanners .......................................................................................................................... 5 Main issues............................................................................................................................................... 7 Committee consideration ................................................................................................................... 7 Technology used by proposed body scanning units ................................................................. 7 Health impacts .......................................................................................................................... 7 Security effectiveness ............................................................................................................... 8 Removal

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Executive summary • This paper provides brief background information for Australian Parliamentarians on the origins of the Olympics and a snapshot of the development of the Games since the first modern Olympics were held in 1896. Particular reference is made to

Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Executive summary • Canberra rarely rates highly in the national or international consciousness as a capital city ‘par excellence’. Easily dismissed by politicians, relatively few tourists come to see it and many people overseas have never heard of it. Yet this totally planned