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• Migration Amendment (2026 Measures No. 1) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable temporary restrictions on the arrival of certain classes of temporary visa holders in Australia, including when events or circumstances outside Australia mean that there is an increased risk that certain classes of temporary visa holders will not depart Australia when their visas cease to be in effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide for the publication of a register of approved standard business sponsors and accredited sponsors who have nominated skilled workers for entry to Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Mandatory Regulation Impact Statement Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  TYRRELL, Sen Tammy 

  Summary

  Requires a regulation impact statement to be prepared for certain bills and legislative instruments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CASH, Sen Michaelia
  BABET, Sen Ralph
  HANSON, Sen Pauline
  PAYMAN, Sen Fatima 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984

  to provide non-government parliamentarians with a guaranteed minimum number of non-ministerial personal employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Restoring Medevac) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SHOEBRIDGE, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable the transfer to Australia of transitory persons, and their families, currently held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, if they are assessed by two or more treating doctors as requiring medical treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable the Minister to determine prohibited things in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees, if the Minister if satisfied that possession or use of that thing might be a risk to the health, safety or security of persons in the facility, or to the order of the facility; expand powers to search, screen and seize prohibited things in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees without a warrant; and enable, in certain circumstances, a detainee to continue to have access to alternative means of communication following seizure of a communication device. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010

  to expand the Midwife Professional Indemnity Scheme to include intrapartum care provided outside of a hospital, including homebirths and Birthing on Country models of care. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide for the cessation of certain bridging visas where the holder of the visa has been granted permission by a foreign country to enter and remain in that country; enable the minister to make a decision that a protection finding would no longer be made in relation to a non-citizen who holds a visa as a removal pathway non-citizen; create an immunity from civil liability in relation to certain acts or omissions; provide for the collection, use and disclosure of criminal history information or information to foreign countries; provide for spending authority for third country reception arrangements; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Limits on Immigration Detention) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  TINK, Kylea, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: prohibit the detention of minors; and introduce a 90-day limit on immigration detention which can only be extended if the minister decides that, having regard to principles of international law, an extended period of detention is necessary as a last resort and is reasonable and proportionate. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Strengthening Sponsorship and Nomination Processes) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: establish a framework for a new temporary skilled worker visa, the Skills in Demand visa; and establish a public register of approved sponsors who have nominated skilled workers for entry to Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum