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  • Interactive Gambling Amendment (Ending Online Wagering on Greyhound Racing) Bill 2025

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    Date
    24 Nov 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Before House of Representatives 
    Sponsor
    WILKIE, Andrew, MP 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to remove greyhound racing from the list of excluded wagering services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Interactive Gambling Amendment (Know Your Losses Activity Statement) Bill 2025

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    Date
    10 Feb 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to require the operator of a licensed interactive wagering service to display real time activity statement information to a user on an online gambling application or website at all times. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Intelligence Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Cyber Security) Bill 2024

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    Date
    09 Oct 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Cyber Security Bill 2024 and Security of Critical Infrastructure and Other Legislation Amendment (Enhanced Response and Prevention) Bill 2024 to implement certain measures proposed by the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, the bill amends the:
    Intelligence Services Act 2001
    to establish a ‘limited use’ obligation that restricts how cyber security information voluntarily provided to the Australian Signals Directorate can be used and disclosed; and
    Freedom of Information Act 1982
    to exempt cyber security information voluntarily provided to the National Cyber Security Coordinator from the operation of the Act. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Interactive Gambling Amendment (Ban Gambling Ads) Bill 2024

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    Date
    09 Oct 2024 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to provide for a staged implementation of a prohibition on the advertising of licensed interactive wagering services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Interactive Gambling Amendment (Ban on Gambling Advertisements) Bill 2024

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    Date
    01 Jul 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to ban the broadcast, datacast and publication of licensed interactive wagering services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024

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    Date
    27 Mar 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012
    to: enable testing of timber products at the border and beyond to ensure non-compliant illegally logged timber is not imported; introduce a requirement for importers and processors to give notice before importing or processing regulated timber products; add strict liability offences, injunctions and enforceable undertakings to enforcement powers; enable audits to be carried out to determine compliance with the due diligence requirements; and extend the time frame for issuing infringement notices to 24 months and enable the department to publish details of contraventions on their website. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023

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    Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, the bill amends the
    Australian Passports Act 2005
    to enable automated disclosures of personal information to a specified person via the Document Verification Service or the Face Verification Service. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Identity Verification Services Bill 2023

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    Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, the bill provides a framework to support the operation of identity verification services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Interactive Gambling Amendment (Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2023

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    Date
    13 Sep 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Interactive Gambling Act 2001
    to: prohibit the use of credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency as payment methods for interactive wagering services; expand the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s compliance and enforcement powers; and make consequential amendments and remove spent provisions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Regulator Performance) Bill 2023

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    Date
    22 Jun 2023 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry and Science 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987
    to: clarify that only the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are permitted to register Olympic insignia as trade marks in Australia; and provide for the rejection of trade mark applications not made by the AOC or IOC;
    Trade Marks Act 1995
    to: align grace periods for payment of a fee for renewal of a trade mark registration to a consistent 6 month duration, whether registration of a trade mark application is delayed or not; clarify provisions dealing with the revocation of the registration of a trade mark where a component of a notice of opposition to registration of that trade mark has been overlooked; permit restoration of a trade mark to the Register of Trade Marks if an extension of time is obtained to file evidence in support of an opposition to the trade mark removal; and remove references to the Official Journal of Trade Marks; and
    Patents Act 1990
    to remove spent transitional and savings provisions that have had no effect from February 2022. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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