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• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to: make the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s compulsory questioning powers framework permanent; expand the scope of adult questioning warrants; amend the eligibility and termination provisions for prescribed authorities; impose additional reporting requirements to ensure that the Attorney-General is made aware of any relevant information regarding the conduct of questioning under a compulsory questioning warrant; require that post-charge questioning occur only before a prescribed authority who is a retired judge; and

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to enable a further review of the framework by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Using Technology to Generate Child Abuse Material) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  CHANEY, Kate, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to create new offences for generating child abuse material using a carriage service. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

  STEGGALL, Zali, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to prohibit the authorisation of certain electoral and referendum matter that is inaccurate and misleading to a material extent, including material that has been modified using digital technology, such as ‘deepfakes’; and require electoral and referendum matter that has been created or modified using digital technology (including AI) to carry a statement to that effect;

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to establish an Electoral Communications Panel; and

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to remove the ‘media blackout’ period that prohibits electoral or referendum advertising in the last 3 days of voting in an election or referendum. 

  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

  Before House of Representatives 

  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

• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  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

• National Health Amendment (Cheaper Medicines) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Health, Disability and Ageing 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum