Bill
Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Facilitation) Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-12-07. Indigenous Australians portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Indigenous Australians
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-08-26
- second reading — 2021-08-26
- second reading — 2021-10-26
- second reading — 2021-10-27
- second reading — 2021-10-27
- third reading — 2021-10-27
- introduced — 2021-11-22
- second reading — 2021-11-22
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- third reading — 2021-12-02
- passed — 2021-12-02
- royal assent — 2021-12-07
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2021-08-26.
This bill supports parts of the federal scheme that compensates Indigenous people forcibly taken from their families in certain territories.
It ensures that receiving the compensation does not reduce any other government payments or require money to be paid back, and that the payment cannot be taken by creditors.
The scheme accepts applications from March 2022 to February 2026, with payments available until June 2026.
- The bill protects recipients' eligibility for other Commonwealth benefits.
- The bill makes the compensation payment exempt from bankruptcy proceedings.
- The bill allows the payment to be given without affecting other entitlements.
Indigenous survivors of forced removal from the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory before self-government, and Jervis Bay.
Sources
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