New federal laws

Superannuation funds and employers, imposing charges under the wider super changes.

Imposes tax on certain superannuation earnings at 15%, plus an extra 10% on the part linked to very large superannuation balances.

13 Mar 2026·In force

People seeking review of government decisions at the Administrative Review Tribunal.

Amends tribunal and migration law covering when the Administrative Review Tribunal can decide reviews without a hearing, plus tribunal acting-President and delegation rules.

9 Feb 2026·In force

Changes criminal and migration law dealing with antisemitism, hate and extremism.

Amends criminal and migration laws dealing with hate crimes, hate symbols, urging violence, prohibited hate groups, and visa decisions connected to antisemitism, hate and extremism.

21 Jan 2026·In force

Changes firearms and customs law dealing with antisemitism, hate and extremism.

Amends Australian customs and firearms laws, including background-checking arrangements and a firearms buyback scheme, as part of measures directed at antisemitism, hate and extremism.

21 Jan 2026·In force

Anyone who uses streaming services, which must now carry a minimum amount of Australian content.

Amends communications law to set Australian content requirements for certain subscription video on demand (streaming) services.

4 Dec 2025·In force

Banks, insurers and other financial institutions, and the people who use them.

Amends a range of Treasury-related laws — covering corporations, competition and consumer, charities, taxation and financial regulator assessment matters — along with minor and technical statute law changes.

4 Dec 2025·In force

Schools, universities and training providers, under integrity measures in education law.

Amends existing education legislation, including changes the title describes as integrity measures; the specific changes aren't determinable from the title alone.

4 Dec 2025·In force

VET students with student loans, and the providers delivering their courses.

Retrospectively authorises the handling of student tax file numbers by VET student loan administrators between 2017 and 2025, and provides for compensation in certain property acquisition cases.

4 Dec 2025·In force

Australia's intelligence agencies and the bodies that oversee them.

Amends laws relating to Australia's intelligence services, dealing with how agencies in the national intelligence community are overseen and scrutinised.

4 Dec 2025·In force

Importers and exporters trading under the Geelong Treaty.

Amends the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to define the Australia–UK Geelong Treaty on nuclear-powered submarines and give a free rate of import duty to goods used under it.

4 Dec 2025·In force

People dealing with immigration and border processes under home affairs law.

Amends migration and citizenship law about personal identifiers, including photographs of a person's face, and about special residence requirements for citizenship.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Anyone affected by environmental decisions, under a new national environmental protection agency.

Sets up the National Environmental Protection Agency, a Commonwealth body led by an independent Chief Executive Officer who carries out functions under existing federal environmental laws.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Businesses, landholders and communities affected by federal environmental approvals.

Changes existing Commonwealth laws about protecting the environment; the title does not reveal what specific changes are made.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Businesses paying a restoration charge under the environment protection changes.

Imposes charges connected with restoration of the environment, operating alongside Commonwealth environment protection and biodiversity conservation law.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Businesses paying general charges under the environment protection changes.

Allows charges — other than customs or excise duties — to be set by regulation for matters connected with administering the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Businesses paying excise-linked charges under the environment protection changes.

Lets regulations impose charges, treated as excise duties and taxes, on matters connected with administering the national environment and biodiversity protection law.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Businesses paying customs-linked charges under the environment protection changes.

Creates a standalone law allowing charges that are customs duties to be imposed in connection with administering Australia's national environment and biodiversity protection law.

1 Dec 2025·In force

Researchers, industry and the public relying on national environmental information.

Creates the role of Head of Environment Information Australia, responsible for national environmental information, data, State of the Environment reports and environmental economic accounts.

1 Dec 2025·In force

The public health system and anyone affected by disease control, under a new national centre.

Sets up the Australian Centre for Disease Control as a Commonwealth body dealing with public health matters, including disease control, health emergencies and public health advice.

10 Nov 2025·In force

Anyone with superannuation and their employers — super must now be paid on payday.

Amends Treasury and superannuation laws in relation to "payday superannuation" — how employer super guarantee obligations line up with when workers are paid.

6 Nov 2025·In force

Parents and employers, under changes to workplace entitlements.

Amends the Fair Work Act so employers generally cannot refuse or cancel employer-funded paid parental leave because an employee's child is stillborn or dies.

6 Nov 2025·In force

Energy consumers and suppliers, as the Australian Energy Regulator is separated out.

Separates the Australian Energy Regulator from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, making the regulator its own Commonwealth entity with its own staff and governance arrangements.

6 Nov 2025·In force

Employers who underpay superannuation, and the employees owed it.

Amends the Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act 1992 to replace references to a "quarter" with a "QE day", changing the time basis used for the charge.

6 Nov 2025·In force

People and entities dealt with under terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code.

Adds a new part to the Criminal Code covering foreign government bodies listed as 'state sponsors of terrorism', creating related offences and updating other counter-terrorism laws.

6 Nov 2025·In force

Telecommunications providers and their customers.

Amends telecommunications interception and access law and law enforcement law, covering network activity warrants, international production orders, controlled operations, and the Communications Access Coordinator role.

4 Nov 2025·In force

Workers and employers dealing with workplace protection orders.

Sets up a scheme for courts to make protection orders against people who commit or threaten violence against Commonwealth workers or at Commonwealth workplaces, with penalties for breaches.

4 Nov 2025·In force

Anyone calling Triple Zero, with a new custodian and emergency calling powers.

Amends telecommunications law to establish a Triple Zero Custodian, create directions powers about emergency call services, and increase civil penalties for related breaches.

30 Oct 2025·In force

Banks, payment providers and the people who use them, under payments system modernisation.

Amends the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 and related laws, updating payment system definitions and adding new designation, regulator, enforcement and penalty arrangements for payment systems.

19 Sept 2025·In force

Older Australians receiving aged care, their families, and aged care providers.

Amends aged care law, including the Aged Care Act 2024 and transitional rules, plus healthcare identifier and related laws, and provides for releasing extra home care packages.

19 Sept 2025·In force

Administrative changes across Commonwealth entities legislation.

26 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Transitional provisions accompanying the National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Act.

26 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Technical amendments to corporations review fees.

13 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Establishes a parliamentary joint committee on defence.

13 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Review requirements in parliamentary frameworks legislation.

13 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Alignment of Commonwealth law with the renaming of the NSW Local Court.

5 Mar 2026·In force·Routine legislation

An omnibus of regulatory tidying across multiple portfolios.

4 Dec 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Miscellaneous technical changes across veterans' affairs legislation.

4 Dec 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Technical corrections to social security legislation; no change to payments.

4 Dec 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Consequential and transitional provisions accompanying the Australian Centre for Disease Control Act.

10 Nov 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Miscellaneous technical changes across health legislation.

4 Nov 2025·In force·Routine legislation

A levy adjustment for the national joint replacement register.

4 Nov 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Board management functions under environment protection law.

30 Oct 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Authorises ordinary government spending; it does not change payments, taxes or services.

29 Oct 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Authorises ordinary government spending; it does not change payments, taxes or services.

29 Oct 2025·In force·Routine legislation

Funds the parliamentary departments for the year; no policy change for the public.

29 Oct 2025·In force·Routine legislation