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• Customs Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025 to implement Australia’s obligations under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to introduce rules of origin to determine if goods imported from the United Arab Emirates into Australia are eligible for preferential tariff treatment in accordance with the agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025 to implement Australia’s obligations under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to give effect to the preferential tariff treatment applicable to eligible goods in accordance with the agreement 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Housing Australia Act 1987

  to enable Defence Housing Australia to provide housing and housing-related services to additional classes of persons. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Early Childhood Education and Care (Strengthening Regulation of Early Education) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: strengthen powers to take action in relation to child care subsidy (CCS) providers based on quality and safety; expand powers to publicise action taken against CCS providers; broaden powers of entry to enable authorised persons to enter premises without consent and streamline the process for seeking entry under a monitoring warrant; enable the delegation of powers to appoint an expert to conduct an independent audit of a large child care provider; and require Family Day Care and In Home Care providers to collect CCS gap fees directly from families. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to establish a principle requiring the Fair Work Commission to ensure that penalty and overtime rates are not reduced and that modern awards do not include terms that substitute employees’ entitlements to receive penalty or overtime rates where those terms would have the effect of reducing that additional remuneration employees would otherwise receive. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Dental Benefits Act 2008

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to change the timeframe for making claims relating to bulk-billed Medicare and dental services from 2 years to 1 year;

  Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

  to update investigative powers in relation to Medicare fraud offences;

  National Health Act 1953

  to streamline pharmacy approval processes;

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable the department to manage and alleviate the consequences of therapeutic goods shortages; and support compliance and enforcement activities undertaken in relation to unlawful therapeutic and vaping goods; and

  Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023

  to clarify the intended operation of certain provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  and 5 other Acts to: provide a one-off 20 per cent reduction to Higher Education Loan Program debts and certain other student loans that are incurred on or before 1 June 2025; and increase the minimum repayment threshold from $54,435 in the 2024-25 financial year to $67,000 in the 2025-26 financial year and provide that compulsory student loan repayments are calculated on income above the new threshold rather than being based on a percentage of the repayment income. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Bill 2025, the bill amends the

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to make compliance with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence a quality and accountability requirement for higher education providers approved under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Universities Accord (National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2025, the bill provides for a National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence which may impose certain requirements and standards on higher education providers in relation to gender-based violence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum