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• Remuneration Tribunal Amendment (There For Public Service, Not Profit) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Feb 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tertiary Education Legislation Amendment (There For Education, Not Profit) Bill 2025, the bill amends the

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  to set a statutory limit on the remuneration of departmental secretaries and other public office holders. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Ban Unethical Contractors) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Sep 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen Barbara 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  to require that government procurement contracts cannot be entered into with potential suppliers or tenderers who have engaged in unethical conduct. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Prime Agricultural Land Protection Bill 2026 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  CANAVAN, Sen Matthew 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework for identifying and protecting Australia’s prime agricultural land. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Plebiscite (Future Migration Level) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Aug 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Establishes a legislative framework for a national plebiscite to be held in conjunction with the next general election that would ask Australians “Do you think the current rate of immigration to Australia is too high?”. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Consultancy and Services Contracts Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  COLBECK, Sen Richard 

  Summary

  Establishes a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Consultancy and Services Contracts to review, consider and report on consultancy and services contracts entered into by Commonwealth entities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Online Safety and Other Legislation Amendment (My Face, My Rights) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  POCOCK, Sen David 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Online Safety Act 2021

  to establish a complaints and enforcement regime for the non-consensual sharing of digitally altered or artificially generated audio or visual content that depicts a person’s face or voice without their consent (deepfake material); and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to establish a cause of action for the wrongful use or disclosure of deepfake material. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Online Safety Amendment (Fix Our Feeds) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Apr 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Online Safety Amendment (Broadening Adult Cyber Abuse Protections) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  PAYMAN, Sen Fatima 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Online Safety Act 2021

  to lower the threshold for material to be considered by the eSafety Commissioner under the adult cyber abuse scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Domestic Reserve) Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  HANSON, Sen Pauline 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to require petroleum production licensees to enter into a domestic reserve agreement with the Commonwealth. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Amendment Bill 2026

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Mar 2026 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016

  to: extend by 10 years to 30 June 2036 the period within which the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) may decide to provide financial assistance; insert certain provisions relating to compliance with the NAIF Investment Mandate; ensure that certain administrative arrangements are the joint responsibility of the responsible ministers; and provide for reviews of the operation of the Act after 30 June 2029 and 30 June 2034. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum