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30 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(the Samuel Review), the bill imposes charges in relation to prescribed matters connected with the administration of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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- Date
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30 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(the Samuel Review), the bill imposes charges in relation to prescribed matters connected with the administration of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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- Date
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30 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(the Samuel Review), the bill imposes charges relating to actions taken under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
, including certain approvals containing conditions requiring the payment of a restoration contribution charge, the registration of priority actions in a bioregional plan, and the grant of national interest and Part 13 exemptions.
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- Date
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30 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(the Samuel Review), the bill amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
to: streamline the assessment and approvals process; update provisions relating to accreditation and bilateral agreements; provide for bioregional plans; provide a framework for the Minister to make, vary and revoke national environmental standards; make it clear that projects with unacceptable impacts on nationally protected matters can no longer be approved; prevent a project being approved unless all residual significant impacts of the action on nationally protected matters have been compensated to a net gain; provide a mechanism for projects that are in the national interest to be approved even if they do not meet certain requirements; allow conditions to be attached to taking an action covered by a national interest exemption; amend provisions relating to reconsiderations; update provisions relating to conservation planning and heritage; update compliance and enforcement powers; and make administrative amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to 11 other Acts.
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- Date
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30 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Summary
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Part of a package of 7 bills to implement the recommendations of the 2020 Independent Review of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(the Samuel Review), the bill establishes the National Environmental Protection Agency as a statutory Commonwealth entity to undertake regulatory and implementation functions under a range of environmental Commonwealth laws
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- Date
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29 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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Senate
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Before Senate
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Sponsor
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HUME, Sen Jane
- Summary
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Amends the:
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998
to remove the moratorium on nuclear energy in Australia; Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011
to enable the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to exercise its functions in relation to ‘clean emissions energy technologies’, which includes civil nuclear energy and nuclear technologies; and Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012
to remove the prohibition on the Clean Energy Finance Corporations’ ability to invest in nuclear technology or nuclear power.
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- Date
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29 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Employment and Workplace Relations
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The bill: authorises certain activities undertaken in relation to tax file numbers (TFNs) for the purpose of administering, or facilitating the administration of, a student’s application for a VET Student Loan or the student’s loan itself; and authorises the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ disclosure of TFNs to VSL providers for the same purposes.
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- Date
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29 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Assent
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Portfolio
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
, Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004
, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988
and Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025
to make technical amendments prior to the commencement of the Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025
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- Date
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28 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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POCOCK, Sen David
- Summary
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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.
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- Date
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27 Oct 2025
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Before House of Representatives
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Sponsor
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LEESER, Julian, MP
- Summary
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Amends the
Crimes Act 1914
in relation to mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences relating to child abuse material transmitted or possessed through a carriage or postal service and the making of recognizance release orders for child sex offences only in exceptional circumstances.
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