This bill addresses an anomaly in the Rates Rebate Act 1973, and ensure that retirement village residents are recognised as paying rates and are therefore entitled to apply for a rates rebate regardless of the billing practice of the local authority.

The purpose of this Bill is to add World Heritage Sites to Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991, which will provide them with protection from mining.

This bill replaces the Code of Conduct referred to in section 387 of the Education Act 1989 with a new Code of Ethics, in order to reinstate the primacy of a code of ethics for the teaching profession.