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TOTAL RESULTS: 9

• Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Climate Change Act 2022

  to: require decision-makers to consider the health and wellbeing of children in Australia when making significant decisions; and require decision-makers not to make significant decisions in relation to the exploration or extraction of coal, oil or natural gas if the decision poses a material risk of harm to the health and wellbeing of children in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MCKIM, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to prohibit a corporation with substantial market power from engaging in conduct that results in, or is likely to result in, an excessive price being charged for a good or service. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Keeping Australia Safe) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  DUNIAM, Sen Jonathon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: create an offence relating to the unauthorised organisation or facilitation of the entry into Australia of certain persons who have engaged in terrorism-related conduct or who are, or have been, members of a terrorist organisation; and extend the operation of the declared areas offence for a further 3 years to 7 September 2030. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to amend the arrangements for review by the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal of decisions relating to defence honours, defence awards and foreign awards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to prohibit the authorisation of certain electoral and referendum matter that is inaccurate and misleading to a material extent, including material that has been modified using digital technology, such as ‘deepfakes’; and require electoral and referendum matter that has been created or modified using digital technology (including AI) to carry a statement to that effect;

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to establish an Electoral Communications Panel; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to remove the ‘media blackout’ period that prohibits electoral or referendum advertising in the last 3 days of voting in an election or referendum. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to implement or respond to certain recommendations from previous reviews and inquiries in relation to the Freedom of Information framework, including the

  Review of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  (the 2013 Hawke Review); and

  Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BRAGG, Sen Andrew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Housing Australia Future Fund Act 2023

  to prohibit the Housing Australia Future Fund from investing in housing-related assets or entities financed by the Construction and Building Unions Superannuation Fund. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CASH, Sen Michaelia
  BABET, Sen Ralph
  HANSON, Sen Pauline
  PAYMAN, Sen Fatima 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  to provide non-government parliamentarians with a guaranteed minimum number of non-ministerial personal employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sex Discrimination Amendment (Restoring Biological Definitions) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ANTIC, Sen Alex
  CANAVAN, Sen Matthew 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to remove references to ‘gender identity’ and insert definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’. 

  Bill