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• Defence and Veterans’ Service Commissioner Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister and Cabinet 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Defence and Veterans’ Service Commissioner (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025, the bill establishes an independent Defence and Veterans’ Service Commission to monitor, inquire into and report on matters relating to suicide prevention and wellbeing outcomes for veterans, including the Commonwealth’s implementation of the Government’s response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence to have general oversight of Australian defence agencies, other than the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Signals Directorate and the Defence Intelligence Organisation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to amend the arrangements for review by the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal of decisions relating to defence honours, defence awards and foreign awards. 

  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

• Defence Service Homes Amendment (Insurance) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Feb 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Service Homes Act 1918

  to: authorise the Commonwealth to engage in insurance activities as an agent for an insurer; and validate past insurance activities carried out by the Commonwealth as an agent for an insurer since 1 January 1990. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Doctors for the Bush Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GEE, Andrew, MP 

  Summary

  Ensures access to general practitioners in regional areas by prohibiting the classification of certain areas as Distribution Priority Areas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence to have general oversight of Australian defence agencies, other than the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Signals Directorate and the Defence Intelligence Organisation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Trade Controls Act 2012

  to: regulate the supply of certain military or dual-use goods and technology on the Defence and Strategic Goods List (DSGL) from Australia to certain foreign persons both within and outside of Australia; regulate the provision of services in relation to DSGL Part 1 military goods or technology to foreign persons or entities; and remove the requirement to obtain a permit for supplies of certain DSGL goods and technology and the provision of certain DSGL services to the United Kingdom or the United States. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Amendment (Safeguarding Australia’s Military Secrets) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish a framework to regulate the work that certain former defence staff members (foreign work restricted individuals) can perform without a foreign work authorisation; and the training that Australian citizens and permanent residents, other than foreign restricted individuals, may provide without a foreign work authorisation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023, the bill: repeals the

  Disability Services Act 1986

  ; and makes consequential amendments to 14 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum