1 April 2024
Cabinet decision summaries for the week of 1 April 2024
Cabinet date: 3 April 2024
Government Submission - Standing Committee on Public Accounts – Inquiry into responses to Auditor-General Reports - No10/2023 Human Resources Information Management System (HRIMS) Program
Minute Number: 24/195/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Government Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts Inquiry into the Auditor-General's report No 10/2023 - Human Resources Information Management System (HRIMS) Program.
The Government Submission has positive wellbeing impacts in the Governance institutions domain.
Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Amendment Bill 2024 - Agreement to Introduce
Minute Number: 24/163/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Minister for Early Childhood Development present the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Amendment Bill 2024 to the ACT Legislative Assembly.
The Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Amendment Bill 2024 will have a positive impact on the safety, health and wellbeing of children attending education and care services in multi-storey buildings. The Bill will have a positive impact on the building/development and education and care sectors by requiring approval in principle of certain proposed education and care service premises ahead of construction.
Review - Laws protecting off-the-plan home buyers from unfair contract cancellations - Public Consultation
Minute Number: 24/127/CAB
Cabinet agreed to a public consultation paper being released to inform the Government's review of laws protecting off-the-plan home buyers from unfair contract cancellation (Part 2A of the Civil Law (Sale of Residential Property) Act 2001).
The proposal does not have a direct well-being impact, as no new initiatives are contemplated. The feedback received through the public consultation process may have a positive impact on the Canberra community through identification of new initiatives to ensure that protections around when property developers can rescind off-the-plan contracts are working effectively.
Education Amendment Bill 2024 - Agreement to Introduce
Minute Number: 23/894/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs introduce the Education Amendment Bill 2024, which will make amendments to the Education Act 2004 in areas relating to enrolments, attendance, participation and distance education, to the ACT Legislative Assembly.
The Education Amendment Bill 2024 will have a positive impact on the wellbeing domain of education and lifelong learning by modernising the Act to reflect a contemporary school environment that promotes flexibility in terms of how learning can be delivered to support individual students as well as the broader school community.
Housing and Consumer Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Agreement to Introduce
Minute Number: 23/734/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Attorney-General introduce the Housing and Consumer Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 in the ACT Legislative Assembly.
The Bill will have significant positive impacts in the housing and home domain by improving renters' rights. It will also have significant positive impacts in the safety domain by increasing protections for victim/ survivors of domestic violence through streamlining the process in which they can end their tenancy. In addition, it will have positive impacts in the economy domain by introducing a range of deregulatory measures.
Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Amendment Bill 2024 -Agreement to Introduce
Minute Number: 23/067/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Minister of Human Rights presenting the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Amendment Bill 2024 to the ACT Legislative Assembly.
The Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance) Amendment Bill 2024 will have wellbeing impacts in the safety domain.
Cabinet date: 7 April 2024
Ministerial Statement – Summary of the 2023-2024 High-Risk Weather Season
Minute Number: 24/158/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Minister for Fire and Emergency Services present the Ministerial Statement.
The wellbeing impact is anticipated to be minor on members of the ACT community as the Ministerial Statement summarising the 2023-2024 High-Risk Weather Season will provide ongoing assurance that the ACT is well prepared to respond to future emergencies as they occur.
Federation Funding Agreement (FFA) Schedule – Expansion of Colonoscopy Triage Services
Minute Number: 24/103/CAB
Cabinet agreed the Minister for Health endorse the Federation Funding Agreement Schedule – Expansion of Colonoscopy Triage Services.
The Federation Funding Agreement Schedule supports states and territories to expand direct access colonoscopy triage models for participants of the National Bowel Cancer Screening program who return a positive bowel cancer screening result, to improve access to public diagnostic colonoscopy services. This expansion will provide more timely diagnosis of bowel cancer, potentially when the disease is at an earlier stage and more treatable. The program expansion will have a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and priority population groups.
Appointments
Cabinet endorsed the below appointments:
- Appointment of Presidential Member, ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Minute Number: 24/160/CAB)
- Appointment of Official Visitor for the purposes of the Housing Assistance Act 2007 (Minute Number: 23/900/CAB)
- Appointment of Official Visitor for the purposes of the Disability Services Act 1991 (Minute Number: 23/897/CAB)