• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2022 [private senator's bill]
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• Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024 [private senator’s bill]
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• Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025
• Watch the debate [part one] [part two]   Read the transcript [part one] [part two]

Debate on these bills will continue at a later date

• Report no. 3 of 2025 Selection of Bills Committee

Government responses

• Response to Not-for-profits entities – Tax assessments Economics References Committee
• Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade:
  • Response to Department of Defence annual report 2021-22
  • Response to Department of Defence annual report 2022-23
• Response to Commonwealth Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2024 Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee

• Departments and agencies were allocated to committees

• The Senate concurred with resolutions of the House relating to the formation of joint committees

Tuesday, 22 July

• Members were appointed to committees

Thursday, 24 July

• Variations were agreed to
• Senator Dean Smith was appointed as a member of the National Archives of Australia Council
• Senators were appointed by ballot to committees:
  • Senator B Pocock - Finance and Public Administration Legislation and References Committees
  • Senator Shoebridge - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation and References Committees
  • Senator Shoebridge - Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission
  • Senator Whish-Wilson - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation and References Committees

See also committee membership page

Tabled

• Response to an order for the production of documents relating to correspondence with Ozy Homes and Manyana Coast – agreed to on 18 November 2024

Agreed to

• Documents relating to online gambling to be tabled by:
  • The Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, by no later than midday on Monday, 28 July 2025
  • The Minister representing the Minister for Communications, by no later than midday on Monday, 28 July 2025
  • The Minister representing the Prime Minister, by no later than midday on Monday, 18 August 2025
• The final report of the review of public sector board appointments processes to be tabled by the Minister for the Public Service, by no later than midday on Tuesday, 29 July 2025
• 2025 incoming government briefs to be tabled by no later than midday on 29 July 2025, by:
  • the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services
  • the Minister representing the Prime Minister
  • the Minister for Women
• Documents relating to the New England Highway to be tabled by the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, by no later than midday on 25 August 2025
• Documents relating to the draft 2025 electricity network options report to be tabled by the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, by no later than midday on Monday, 28 July 2025
• Documents relating to Workforce Australia services participants to be tabled by the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, by no later than 31 July 2025
• Advice provided by the Treasury regarding housing to be tabled by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Monday, 28 July 2025
• Documents relating to aggregate expenditure made from the Housing Australia Future Fund to be tabled by the Minister representing the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Monday, 28 July 2025

Orders to comply

• The Senate ordered the Minister for the Environment and Water to comply by no later than 9 am on 24 July 2025 with the order agreed to on 18 November 2024 to table correspondence with Ozy Homes and Manyana Coast

• Australian parliamentary delegations to:
  • Tuvalu and Fiji
  • 67th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
  • People’s Republic of China and Mongolia

Notice of motion to disallow

• Industry Research and Development (Dealership and Repairer Initiative for Vehicle Electrification Nationally (DRIVEN) Program) Instrument 2024 [F2024L01460] notice given by Senator Roberts

• Senator McCarthy made a statement regarding the Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country and senators made statements in response
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• His Holiness Pope Francis
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• Dr Alan Eggleston AM, former senator for Western Australia
  Watch the condolences [part one] [part two]   Read the transcript [part one] [part two]
• The Honourable Peter James Nixon AO, former minister and member of the House of Representatives for the division of Gippsland, Victoria
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• The sitting calendar for the remainder of 2025 was agreed to

• The President made a statement regarding the conduct of senators during the Governor-General’s opening address
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• The Address-in-reply to the Governor-General’s opening speech was debated
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