New federal laws

Online gambling operators pay a levy to cover the costs of regulating interactive gambling services in Australia.

Imposes an annual levy on businesses providing licensed interactive wagering services, to recover the Australian Communications and Media Authority's costs of the Wagering Advertising Opt-out Register and its wagering inducement functions. ACMA sets the calculation method, capped at those costs.

26 Aug 2026·In force

People who gamble online and operators of online gambling services face new rules about how they can advertise, operate, and interact with customers.

Adds rules to the Interactive Gambling Act restricting wagering ads during live sport coverage, capping TV ads, and requiring online services to check ages and offer opt-outs. It also covers illegal gambling services, inducements and BetStop, with civil penalties.

26 Aug 2026·In force

State and territory governments that enter into foreign agreements must now notify the federal government, changing how they coordinate international arrangements.

Changes the rules on state, territory and university deals with foreign governments: the test becomes Australia's "national interest", the Minister can attach conditions, extend decision times and reinstate unapproved deals, and universities must cover overseas campuses and foreign research projects.

26 Aug 2026·In force

Digital platforms that distribute news media content pay a charge to support Australian news organisations.

Creates a charge (a compulsory payment) connected with news media bargaining; the title does not reveal the rate, who pays, or how it is worked out.

26 Aug 2026·In force

News organisations and digital platforms are affected by changes to how payments for news content are made or managed.

Amends the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to require the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to tell the Communications Department Secretary, as soon as practicable, when it registers, revokes or changes the registration or endorsement of news businesses and their corporations.

26 Aug 2026·In force

People with disabilities receiving NDIS support and taxpayers funding the scheme face changes to eligibility, payments, or contribution rates.

Changes the NDIS Act: defines "functional capacity", sets conditions on participant-requested plan reassessments, automatically renews old plans yearly, lets the Minister reduce funding for some support groups, allows suspending plans of uncontactable participants, and adds provider fraud penalties and whistleblower protections.

20 Aug 2026·In force

Coal mining employees and their employers, whose industry-wide long service leave scheme changes.

Amends the laws that set up the long service leave scheme for the black coal mining industry, including the payroll levy arrangements that support it.

6 July 2026·In force

Anyone using medicines subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and the doctors prescribing them.

Amends health laws so registered nurses approved as authorised nurse prescribers can prescribe and supply certain Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines, with approval and review processes.

6 July 2026·In force

Employees and employers under federal workplace relations law.

Amends workplace relations law — the Fair Work Act, Independent Contractors Act and registered organisations law — covering road transport contractors, dismissal disputes, bargaining and organisation reporting.

6 July 2026·In force

Companies, accountants and auditors who prepare or check financial reports.

Restructures Australia's financial reporting bodies, replacing the Financial Reporting Council, accounting and auditing standards boards with a new body, External Reporting Australia, and updates related corporations laws.

6 July 2026·In force

Consumers and the businesses selling to them, as this changes what counts as unfair conduct.

Bans businesses from manipulating consumers or using confusing website design to push them into decisions, forces extra per-transaction fees to be shown alongside the advertised price, and requires subscriptions to be as easy to cancel as they were to start.

2 July 2026·In force

Businesses and councils in northern Australia seeking loans from the government's infrastructure fund.

Amends the law for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, extending its deadline for financial assistance decisions to 2036 and adding Investment Mandate compliance and review requirements.

30 June 2026·In force

Taxpayers and their agents, under changes to how tax law is administered.

Changes tax, superannuation, social security and veterans' law, covering gift deductions, Medicare levy low-income thresholds, research and development tax incentive exclusions, and pension supplement during overseas absences.

30 June 2026·In force

Anyone who buys petrol or diesel — this changes the fuel tax built into the pump price.

Cut fuel duty to 69.6% of the normal rate for one month, from 1 July 2026, with full rates restored on 1 August 2026.

30 June 2026·In force

Taxpayers generally, under a package of tax reform measures.

Amends tax and superannuation law, covering capital gains tax, negative gearing for residential property, a working Australians tax offset, work-related expense deductions, and superannuation borrowing arrangements.

26 June 2026·In force

Anyone who pays income tax, with changes to the rates applied to earnings.

Amends the Income Tax Rates Act 1986, adding a rate for extra income tax on a taxpayer's "minimum tax capital gain" as defined in income tax assessment law.

26 June 2026·In force

Businesses and consumers, under competition rules for exceptional circumstances.

Amends competition and consumer law so the competition regulator can exempt conduct from competition rules during declared emergencies, and changes penalties under the Oil Code.

26 May 2026·In force

Businesses with premises registered to prepare goods such as meat or dairy for export.

Amends the Export Control Act 2020 dealing with government certificates for kinds of goods and with export operations carried out at registered establishments.

20 May 2026·In force

Australian authors, illustrators and publishers, who would receive payments for books held in public and school libraries.

Sets up a scheme that pays Australian authors, illustrators and publishers for books held in public and school libraries, recognising money they lose when books are borrowed rather than bought.

20 May 2026·In force

Survivors receiving payments or redress, under changes to how those are treated in tax law.

Amends tax, superannuation and bankruptcy law to let survivors of certain child abuse offences access a convicted perpetrator's superannuation for unpaid court-ordered compensation.

20 May 2026·In force

Importers and brand owners dealing with Customs over goods suspected of infringing trade marks.

Amends customs and trade description laws dealing with false trade marks on imported goods, and with infringement notices for such conduct.

20 May 2026·In force

Patients receiving passive immunological products, and the health system that supplies them.

Amends national health law in relation to passive immunological products — treatments that supply ready-made antibodies rather than prompting the body to make its own.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Federal offenders seeking parole, and the new board that decides it.

Creates the Commonwealth Parole Board, an independent body that decides on parole and conditional release for federal offenders under the Crimes Act 1914.

8 Apr 2026·In force

People who need an interpreter to access services, and the interpreters and agencies providing them.

Sets out Commonwealth functions for providing or arranging translating and interpreting services, and allows fees to be charged for those services.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Anyone holding or trading digital assets, and the businesses that offer them, now under a corporations framework.

Amends corporations and financial services law to set up a framework for digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms, covering licensing, disclosure and conduct rules.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Anyone who buys draught beer, and the pubs and brewers who sell it — this changes the customs duty on it.

Amends the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to temporarily pause the regular inflation-based indexation of customs duty rates applying to imported draught beer.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Migrant workers and the employers who engage them, with new measures against exploitation.

Amends the Migration Act 1958 to allow the Department to publish prescribed information about approved work sponsors, as part of measures the title describes as combatting migrant exploitation.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Australian operators and researchers working in international waters, under a new high seas biodiversity regime.

Creates Australian law on conserving and sustainably using marine biodiversity in the high seas — ocean areas beyond the jurisdiction of any single country.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Anyone who buys draught beer, and the pubs and brewers who sell it — this changes the excise on it.

Amends the Excise Tariff Act 1921 to temporarily freeze the automatic inflation-based indexation of excise rates for draught beer across four indexation days.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Anyone applying for life insurance who has had genetic testing, and the insurers assessing them.

Amends Commonwealth treasury and financial laws dealing with how genetic testing information may be used in life insurance, along with other unspecified measures.

8 Apr 2026·In force

Gambling operators pay a levy to recover the costs of administering the national self-exclusion register.

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

This Act makes technical changes to legislation following introduction of a cash distribution framework.

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

The title doesn't say who this affects; omnibus amendments typically bundle procedural or technical changes across multiple criminal laws.

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

This Act makes technical corrections and updates to other laws following the enactment of news media bargaining legislation.

26 Aug 2026·In force·Routine legislation

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

30 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Administrative changes to how business registries operate.

30 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

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

30 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

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

30 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Officials bound by particular secrecy provisions; it changes when those provisions expire.

29 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

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

26 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

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

26 June 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Consequential and transitional provisions accompanying the lending rights Act.

20 May 2026·In force·Routine legislation

Consequential and transitional provisions accompanying the Commonwealth Parole Board Act.

8 Apr 2026·In force·Routine legislation