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  • Date
    30 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998
    to: expand the coverage of the payments regulatory framework to include new and emerging payment systems and participants; provide for new ministerial powers to designate payment systems when it is in the national interest to do so; and introduce civil penalty provisions and enforceable undertakings, and increase maximum penalties for certain criminal offences. Also makes consequential amendments to 4 other Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, the bill supports the commencement of the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    by amending the
    Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006
    to ensure that the Act operates as intended. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025, the bill supports the commencement of the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    by amending: the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    and
    Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024
    to make technical amendments and editorial corrections; 23 Acts to make consequential amendments; and the
    Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010
    to enable healthcare identifiers and other identifying information to be used in relation to the delivery and administration of health and aged care and other support services, including disability services. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025 to implement Australia’s obligations under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, the bill amends the
    Customs Act 1901
    to introduce rules of origin to determine if goods imported from the United Arab Emirates into Australia are eligible for preferential tariff treatment in accordance with the agreement. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Australia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2025 to implement Australia’s obligations under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Australia and the United Arab Emirates, the bill amends the
    Customs Tariff Act 1995
    to give effect to the preferential tariff treatment applicable to eligible goods in accordance with the agreement 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Defence 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Defence Housing Australia Act 1987
    to enable Defence Housing Australia to provide housing and housing-related services to additional classes of persons. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    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

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health, Disability and Ageing 
    Summary
    Removes fees imposed on the pathology sector for the approval of certain categories of pathology accreditation applications by repealing the
    Health Insurance (Pathology (Fees) Act 1991
    and
    Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Act 2015
    . Also makes consequential amendments to the
    Health Insurance Act 1973

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of meeting any liabilities that the Commonwealth may incur under a Pacific banking guarantee entered into with an Australian-headquartered authorised deposit-taking institution operating in the Pacific region. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    23 Jul 2025 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979
    to extend the operation of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s compulsory questioning warrant framework for a further 18 months. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum