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2008-2009-2010
THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance)
Amendment Bill 2010
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Education
the Honourable Julia Gillard MP)
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance)
Amendment Bill 2010
OUTLINE
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Indigenous Education (Targeted
Assistance) Act 2000 (the IETA Act) to include additional appropriations
announced in the 2009-10 Budget for the Sporting Chance program. The
funding for the Budget measure Closing the Gap - Sporting Chance Program
was included as an annual administered expense (Appropriation Act number
1).
The Bill will enable the Commonwealth to continue to exercise public
leadership and maintain support for the achievement of improved Indigenous
education outcomes, including meeting its responsibilities for the policy
framework and priorities, engagement with stakeholders and investment in
support of those outcomes.
The Bill will enable all the funding for the Sporting Chance Program to be
administered under the IETA Act from 1 January 2010.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
The Bill provides for the appropriation of nearly $492m in final 2009
prices for non-ABSTUDY payments over the balance of the three periods from
1 January 2010 to 30 June 2013 as set out in Schedule 1. Appropriations
transferred from Appropriation Act number 1 to the IETA Act total $10.93m.
In accordance with the Government's policy, these amounts will be adjusted
for price movements.
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance)
Amendment Bill 2010
NOTES ON CLAUSES
Clause 1 - Short title
Clause 1 provides for the Act to be cited as the Indigenous Education
(Targeted Assistance) Amendment Act 2010.
Clause 2 - Commencement
Clause 2 provides that the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance)
Amendment Act 2010 will be taken to have commenced on 1 January 2010.
Retrospective commencement of the Act is considered necessary to bring the
additional funding to expand the Sporting Chance announced in the 2009-10
Budget, in line with other appropriations for that program. The Sporting
Chance program is one of the innovative measures to close the gaps funded
through the Act to support improvements in Indigenous education outcomes.
Clause 3 - Schedule(s)
Provides that each Act that is specified in a Schedule is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule and that any
other item in a Schedule has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1-Amendments
Summary
This Schedule amends the table in subsection 14B(1) of the Indigenous
Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 to include additional funding for
the Sporting Chance program, in order to bring it into the Commonwealth's
suite of targeted assistance measures and to adjust the 2010 to 2012
appropriations agreed as part of the new Federal Financial Relations
Framework.
Explanation of the changes
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000
Items 1, 2 and 3 - Subsection 14B(1) (table items 2, 3 and 4)
Item 1, 2 and 3 amend the table in subsection 14B(1) of the Indigenous
Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 to: increase appropriations for
non-ABSTUDY payments to include additional funding for the Sporting Chance
program to bring it into the Commonwealth's suite of targeted assistance
measures; and to adjust the 2010 to 2012 appropriations agreed as part of
the new Federal Financial Relations Framework.
The table in subsection 14B(1) of the Indigenous Education (Targeted
Assistance) Act 2000 sets out appropriations for non-ABSTUDY payments for
the 2009-2013 quadrennium. The appropriations are base funding amounts
(starting amounts) for four overlapping eighteen month appropriation
periods from 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2013.
Item 1 provides that the appropriation set out in table item 2 (which
provides appropriations for the period 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2011) is
increased from "$163,778,000" to "$167,058,000".
Item 2 provides that the appropriation set out in table item 3 (which
provides appropriations for the period 1 January 2011 to 30 June 2012) is
increased from "$159,559,000" to "$163,703,000".
Item 3 provides that the appropriation set out in table item 4 (which
provides appropriations for the period 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2013) is
increased from "$157,731,000" to $161,236,000".