Parliament of Australia: Bills

Note: This page contains links to PDF files for more information see Accessing files. Users should not rely on PDF bill files for drafting and checking parliamentary amendments, as the PDF files may not match pagination and line numbering in official printed bills, due to conversion problems.

BillsNet

House Daily Bills List (PDF format 80kb) A list of bills under consideration by the Parliament for this year - allows you to track the progress of a bill

Senate Daily Bills Update (PDF format 64kb) A list of bills before the Senate - indicates the stage of the bill reached

Senate Bills List (PDF format 236kb) A detailed list, including abstract, of all bills considered by the Parliament this year

Current Bills (by Title) A list of current bills being considered by the Parliament, listed alphabetically by title (Please Note )

Current Bills (by Portfolio) A list of current bills being considered by the Parliament, listed by portfolio

Current Bills (by Private Member) A list of current bills being considered by the Parliament, listed under the name of the private member or senator who introduced the bill

Old Bills A list of bills from present and previous parliaments passed by the Parliament (Act prints) and bills that did not become acts

Old Bills Lists Bills lists from previous calendar years

Excise Tariff proposals

Customs Tariff proposals

Bills Digest A description of new bills brought into either House arranged by financial year
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/rssbd_feed.xml

Legislation Proposed for Introduction in 2008 - RTF 166KB | PDF 82KB produced by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Draft Legislation Programmes: Senate - HTML | RTF - House of Representatives - HTML | RTF produced by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Printed Bills Sales

Note. Links to second reading speeches and Bills Digest are sometimes lost when the name of the bill changes by year eg. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Bill 2005 [2006]..
If you do find the second reading speech folder empty you can still locate the items in the Parlinfo Web database on the Parliament House site. Choose Guided Search and then load the Guided Search Second Reading Speeches for a Bill.
For Bills Digests that have disappeared go to the Library site where all the Bills Digests are made available by both title and number.

Acts and Australian Law

Acts
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Window on the Law
The site administered by the Attorney-General's Department containing a wealth of information on Australian law.

ComLaw contains: Commonwealth primary legislation, as well as other ancillary documents and information, in electronic form, and the new Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) which was established on 1 January 2005 under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 as the authoritative source for legislative instruments and compilations of legislative instruments.

Legislative Instruments Database

Parliament House Legislative Instruments

Senate

Bills Referred to Committees
An up-to-date list of legislation referred to Committees.

The Senate and Legislation
Describes how government bills are considered and passed by the Senate.

House of Representatives

Bills referred to Committees - House of Representatives and Joint

Making laws -Infosheet No. 7
Describes how government bills are considered and passed by the House.

The Constitution

The Australian Constitution