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  • Mandatory Regulation Impact Statement Bill 2025

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    03 Nov 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
    TYRRELL, Sen Tammy 
    Summary
    Requires a regulation impact statement to be prepared for certain bills and legislative instruments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    25 Aug 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    CASH, Sen Michaelia
    BABET, Sen Ralph
    HANSON, Sen Pauline
    PAYMAN, Sen Fatima 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984
    to provide non-government parliamentarians with a guaranteed minimum number of non-ministerial personal employees. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Restoring Medevac) Bill 2025

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    12 Feb 2025 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    SHOEBRIDGE, Sen David 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to enable the transfer to Australia of transitory persons, and their families, currently held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, if they are assessed by two or more treating doctors as requiring medical treatment. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2024

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    22 Jun 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    SMITH, Sen Dean 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to: require persons entering Australia to respond to specified questions in relation to organ transplants outside Australia; provide for annual reporting requirements in relation to this information; and enable the minister to refuse to grant, or to cancel, a person’s visa if the minister reasonably suspects the person has been involved in conduct constituting an offence involving trafficking in human organs. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Murdoch Media Inquiry Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    13 Jun 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Aggregate Sentences) Bill 2023

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    Date
    07 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Responds to the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in
    Pearson v Minister for Home Affairs
    [2022] FCAFC 203 by amending the
    Migration Act 1958
    to provide a clear basis for aggregate sentences (that is, one sentence imposed in respect of more than one offence) to be taken into account in a consistent manner for all relevant purposes under the Act and the
    Migration Regulations 1994
    . 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    07 Feb 2023 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    MCKIM, Sen Nick 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to: require the minister to provide an offer of transfer to Australia to all persons in the offshore cohort in Papua New Guinea or the Republic of Nauru who have not had an adverse security assessment made against them by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; and provide that transferred persons will be placed in community detention while they pursue a durable solution, being resettlement in a third country which is a state party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Refugee Protocol. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    28 Sep 2022 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 
    Summary
    Implements Australia's obligations under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships by amending the:
    Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983
    to: introduce controls for discharges of residues of noxious liquid substances known as 'persistent floaters' in northern European waters; and ban the use of heavy fuel oil by ships in Arctic waters;
    Protection of the Sea (Harmful Anti-fouling Systems) Act 2006
    to extend controls on ship harmful anti-fouling systems to include the chemical biocide, cybutryne; and
    Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983
    and
    Protection of the Sea (Harmful Anti-fouling Systems) Act 2006
    to make minor technical and consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Migration Amendment (Temporary Visa Extensions and Reinstatements) Bill 2021

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    20 Oct 2021 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    MCKIM, Sen Nick 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to enable uniform and automatic extensions to time-limited temporary visa subclasses, where the visa holder has been unable to enter Australia due to travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    16 Jun 2021 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Sport 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection Act 2014
    to: prevent the unauthorised commercial use of certain indicia and images associated with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup Australia New Zealand 2023 and the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022; and remove the Schedule relating to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games; and
    Sport Integrity Australia Act 2020
    to correct an erroneous reference to an article of the World Anti-Doping Code in the definition of 'ineligibility'. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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