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Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018

Revised Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by the authority of the Minister for Social Services, the Hon Christian Porter MP)
This memorandum takes account of amendments made by the House of Representatives to the bill as introduced.

[1]
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 18, paragraphs 1 and 2.

[2]
Closing the Gap - Prime Minister's Report 2016, accessible at https://www.dpmc.gov.au/resource-centre/indigenous-affairs/closing-gap-prime-ministers-report-2016.

[3]
See HRC Concluding Observations on Ireland, (2000) UN Doc. CCPR/CO/70/TTO, [11].

[1]
Article 2 of the ICESCR.
[2]
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 19, paragraph 59.

[4]
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 , Explanatory Memorandum


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