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• Communications Legislation Amendment (Australian Content Requirement for Subscription Video On Demand (Streaming) Services) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to require providers of certain subscription video on demand services to ensure minimum levels of expenditure on new eligible Australian programs; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to separate the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and establish the AER as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Copyright Amendment Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Copyright Act 1968

  to: facilitate the use of copyright materials for which the copyright owner cannot be identified or located (commonly known as ‘orphan works’) by limiting the remedies available for infringing use if the user conducts a reasonably diligent search for the copyright owner or owners and meets certain other requirements; clarify the scope of section 28 which relates to the performance and communication of copyright material in the course of educational instruction; and make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003

  to validate certain fees collected by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission between 1 July 2011 and 11 March 2025, including the indexation applied to those fees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to update Australia’s digital asset regulatory regime by: defining the core concepts of digital tokens, digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms; applying the financial services law in a way that is tailored to these platforms; providing targeted exemptions for certain digital token arrangements; and providing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Minister with powers to regulate these platforms. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: provide for a framework to list foreign state entities as state sponsors of terrorism and to respond to state-sponsored terrorist acts; and enable control orders, preventative detention orders and post sentence orders to be used in respect of state sponsors of terrorism and state terrorist acts. Also makes consequential amendments to 20 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• 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

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to pause the indexation of customs duty rates on draught beer for two years, from 1 August 2025 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Geelong Treaty Implementation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Implements Australia’s obligations under the Nuclear-Powered Submarine Partnership and Collaboration Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by amending the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to provide for a free rate of customs duty for goods that are for use under the treaty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum