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  • Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025

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    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

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    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

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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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

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    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

  • National Health Amendment (Cheaper Medicines) Bill 2025

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    Date
    30 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Amends the
    National Health Act 1953
    to reduce the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme general patient charge from $31.60 to $25.00 from 1 January 2026. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025

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    Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, the bill supports the commencement of the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    by amending the
    Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006
    to ensure that the Act operates as intended. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025

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    Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025, the bill supports the commencement of the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    by amending: the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    and
    Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024
    to make technical amendments and editorial corrections; 23 Acts to make consequential amendments; and the
    Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010
    to enable healthcare identifiers and other identifying information to be used in relation to the delivery and administration of health and aged care and other support services, including disability services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

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    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

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