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• High Seas Biodiversity Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to implement Australia’s obligations under the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: provide for the automation of Medicare provider numbers; remedy minor issues; and amend the Bonded Medical Program in relation to repayment of education costs, Medicare benefits and Bonded Medical Program rules;

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to ensure the validity of registration and claims processes for the Private Health Insurance Rebate Premiums Reduction Scheme;

  Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Assignment of Medicare Benefits) Act 2024

  to delay the commencement of assignment of Medicare benefits arrangements; and

  Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. 

  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

  Act 

  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

• Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) (Repeal) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Summary

  Removes fees imposed on the pathology sector for the approval of certain categories of pathology accreditation applications by repealing the

  Health Insurance (Pathology (Fees) Act 1991

  and

  Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Act 2015

  . Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  . 

  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

• Fair Work Amendment (Fairer Fuel) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: allow the minister to determine that an application relating to a road transport contractual chain order (RTCCO) is an emergency application in the event of time-sensitive circumstances or circumstances that negatively impact the road transport industry nationally; and enable the Fair Work Commission to make RTCCOs in an expedited manner. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Baby Priya’s) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that, unless employers and employees have expressly agreed otherwise, employer-funded paid parental leave must not be cancelled because a child is stillborn or dies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Strategic Reserve) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

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

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

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

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum