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  • Social Media Minimum Age Repeal Bill 2025

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    25 Nov 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    BABET, Sen Ralph
    ANTIC, Sen Alex
    CANAVAN, Sen Matthew
    HANSON, Sen Pauline
    ROBERTS, Sen Malcolm
    BELL, Sen Sean
    WHITTEN, Sen Tyron 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Online Safety Act 2021
    to remove minimum age requirements for social media use and the obligation on providers of an age-restricted social media platform to take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users from having an account with the platform; and
    Age Discrimination Act 2004
    to make a consequential amendment. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    04 Sep 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    HUME, Sen Jane 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
    ,
    Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994
    and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to enable spouses to split their collective superannuation balances between them on an ongoing annual basis. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Responding to Robodebt) Bill 2025 [No. 2]

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    26 Aug 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    ALLMAN-PAYNE, Sen Penny 
    Summary
    Amends the
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    ,
    Social Security Act 1991
    ,
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    and
    Student Assistance Act 1973
    to respond to certain recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Sex Discrimination Amendment (Restoring Biological Definitions) Bill 2025

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    Date
    31 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    ANTIC, Sen Alex
    CANAVAN, Sen Matthew 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Sex Discrimination Act 1984
    to remove references to ‘gender identity’ and insert definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’. 

    Bill

  • Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment (Frontline Emergency Service Workers) Bill 2025

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    Date
    05 Feb 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    MCKIM, Sen Nick 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
    to increase the superannuation guarantee rate for firefighters and paramedics by 4.4 per cent to match the base rate of superannuation contributions provided to Australian Defence Force personnel. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Sex Discrimination Amendment (Acknowledging Biological Reality) Bill 2024

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    Date
    12 Sep 2024 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    HANSON, Sen Pauline 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Sex Discrimination Act 1984
    to remove references to ‘gender identity’. 

    Bill

  • Social Services Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Pensioner and Veteran Workforce Participation) Bill 2022

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    03 Aug 2022 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    SMITH, Sen Dean 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    and
    Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
    to enable age pensioners and certain veterans' entitlement recipients to have their payment suspended for up to two years, instead of cancelled, if their income, which includes some income from the recipient's own employment, precludes payment; and provide for the same suspension period for partners of the age pension, disability support pension and certain veterans' entitlements recipients, where the partner is receiving a social security pension or certain veterans' entitlements;
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    to make minor amendments to the existing suspension provisions for disability support pensioners; and
    Social Security Act 1991
    and
    Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
    to: provide that working age pensioners, disability support pensioners and certain veterans' entitlements recipients, and their pensioner partners, can retain their pensioner concession card for up to two years after their payment ceases; and increase to $600 the amount of income age pensioners and certain veterans' entitlement recipients can earn each fortnight while still receiving maximum pension payments and provide for a review, and sunsetting, of these amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Self-Employment Programs and Other Measures) Bill 2022

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    27 Jul 2022 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Employment and Workplace Relations 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Family Law Regulations 1984
    ,
    Social Security Act 1991
    and
    Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
    to clarify that the Acts operate in the same way in relation to payments under the Self-Employment Assistance program as payments under the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme; and
    Social Security Act 1991
    and
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    to make minor technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Sex Discrimination and Other Legislation Amendment (Save Women’s Sport) Bill 2022

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    10 Feb 2022 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    CHANDLER, Sen Claire 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Australian Sports Commission Act 1989
    to require the Australian Sports Commission to promote women’s participation in sport, including by supporting the provision of single-sex sport for women and girls; and
    Sex Discrimination Act 1984
    to provide that the provision of single-sex sports, services and facilities for women and girls is consistent with the objects of the Act; insert definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’; and provide that it is not unlawful to exclude persons of one sex from participation in any sporting activity intended for persons of a different sex. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Spam Amendment (Unsolicited Political Communications) Bill 2021

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    20 Oct 2021 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    GRIFF, Sen Stirling 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
    to require that voice calls communicating an electoral matter to a person must identify the use of any actors at the beginning of the call; and
    Spam Act 2003
    to require political parties to provide an unsubscribe function for all unsolicited electronic communications containing political content. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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