Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham

Through the Morrison Government’s legislative agenda we continue to implement our economic recovery plan, create more jobs, keep Australians safe and secure as well as deliver the essential services we all rely on.  

A number of important bills were passed throughout the year to ensure additional economic support could flow to Australian individuals, households and businesses who have been doing it tough as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measures also passed the Parliament that provide greater and more affordable child care to around 250 000 Australian families and allow more parents to return to work or pick up more hours.

We also continue to keep Australians safe with new national security laws to better equip our intelligence agencies, protect the community from high-risk terrorist offenders and further back our law enforcement agencies to dismantle criminal gangs.

We are also keeping Australians safe online, especially our kids, having passed important laws that give the eSafety Commissioner stronger powers to improve online safety and crack down on the cyberbullying of children and toxic online abuse.

Aged-care reforms developed in response to the Royal Commission will also help ensure senior Australians receive the high-quality and safe aged-care services they deserve.

New superannuation reforms are also set to save Australians $17.9 billion over ten years and will ensure the system works in the best financial interests of all Australians by providing more flexibility, removing unnecessary waste and increasing accountability and transparency.

In total, the Morrison Government passed a total of 142 bills through the Parliament this year as we continue to support all Australians through the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021
• Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No. 1) Bill 2021
• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 2) Bill 2020
• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Serious Incident Response Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2020
• Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority Board and Other Improvements) Bill 2019
• Agriculture Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Bill 2019
• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022
• Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022
• Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022
• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2020-2021
• Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2020-2021
• Archives and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
• Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Reporting) Bill 2020
• Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Amendment (Governance and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions) Bill 2021
• Biosecurity Amendment (Clarifying Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Bill 2021
• Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Penalties) Bill 2021
• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021
• Charter of the United Nations Amendment Bill 2021
• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021
• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2021
• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Sunsetting Review and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Bill 2021
• Crimes Amendment (Remissions of Sentences) Bill 2021
• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Economic Disruption) Bill 2020
• Customs Amendment (2022 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2021
• Customs Tariff Amendment (2022 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2021
• Customs Amendment (Product Specific Rule Modernisation) Bill 2019
• Customs Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2021
• Customs Tariff Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2021
• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals and Other Measures) Bill 2020
• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021
• Defence Legislation Amendment (Discipline Reform) Bill 2021
• Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2021
• Designs Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020
• Education Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021
• Education Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021
• Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2021
• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Refunds of Charges and Other Measures) Bill 2020
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Bill 2021
• Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Annual Disclosure Equality) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Assurance of Senate Counting) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Contingency Measures) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Counting, Scrutiny and Operational Efficiencies) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Offences and Preventing Multiple Voting) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Party Registration Integrity) Bill 2021
• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Political Campaigners) Bill 2021
• Export Control Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020
• Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Equity Investments and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021
• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Subsidy) Bill 2021
• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Early Childhood Education and Care Coronavirus Response and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Farm Household Support Amendment (Debt Waiver) Bill 2021
• Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019
• Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019
• Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021
• Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021
• Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2020
• Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response - Better Advice) Bill 2021
• Foreign Intelligence Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
• Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021
• Fuel Security Bill 2021
• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2021
• Health Insurance Amendment (Enhancing the Bonded Medical Program and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Health Insurance Amendment (Prescribed Fees) Bill 2021
• Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Category Standards and Other Measures) Bill 2020
• Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021
• Higher Education Support Amendment (Freedom of Speech) Bill 2020
• Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Amendment Bill 2021
• Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Bill 2020
• Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Charge (General) Bill 2020
• Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Charge (Customs) Bill 2020
• Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Charge (Excise) Bill 2020
• Industrial Chemicals Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
• Industry Research and Development Amendment (Industry Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2021
• Major Sporting Events (Indicia and Images) Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
• Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
• Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for Removal) Bill 2021
• Migration Amendment (Tabling Notice of Certain Character Decisions) Bill 2021
• Mutual Recognition Amendment Bill 2021
• Narcotic Drugs Amendment (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2021
• National Collecting Institutions Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Credit Reporting and Other Measures) Bill 2019
• National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Supporting Economic Recovery) Bill 2020
• National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Improving Supports for At Risk Participants) Bill 2021
• National Health Amendment (COVID-19) Bill 2021
• National Health Amendment (Decisions under the Continence Aids Payment Scheme) Bill 2021
• National Health Amendment (Enhancing the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2021
• National Radioactive Waste Management Amendment (Site Selection, Community Fund and Other Measures) Bill 2020
• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2020
• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment Bill 2021
• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Funders of Last Resort and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Native Title Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
• Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Amendment (Extension and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021
• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021
• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021
• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2021
• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Titles Administration and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021
• Online Safety Bill 2021
• Paid Parental Leave Amendment (COVID-19 Work Test) Bill 2021
• Private Health Insurance Amendment (Income Thresholds) Bill 2021
• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Age of Dependants) Bill 2021
• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2020
• Royal Commissions Amendment (Protection of Information) Bill 2021
• Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2021
• Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021
• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Remote Engagement Program) Bill 2021
• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Student Assistance and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Portability Extensions) Bill 2021
• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Income Support) Bill 2021
• Special Recreational Vessels Amendment Bill 2021
• Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021
• Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Amendment Bill 2021
• Telecommunications Amendment (Infrastructure in New Developments) Bill 2020
• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020
• Telstra Corporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
• Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021
• Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Facilitation) Bill 2021
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Amendment Bill 2021
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021
• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2020 Measures No. 2) Bill 2020
• Transport Security Amendment (Serious Crime) Bill 2020
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 4) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 5) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 6) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (COVID-19 Economic Response No. 2) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (COVID-19 Economic Response) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (More Flexible Superannuation) Bill 2020
• Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Reuniting More Superannuation) Bill 2020
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Self-Managed Superannuation Funds) Bill 2020
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021
• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Exempting Disability Payments from Income Testing and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• VET Student Payment Arrangements (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2020
• Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021
• Work Health and Safety Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2021