What this Bill does mechanics first Creates a new criminal offence called "coercive control of a family member" in the Crimes Act new Part 3B, especially section 72J. The offence targets an adult who engages...

What the Bill does mechanics first Gives the Building Services Board and Building Commissioner new powers to police the financial capacity and behaviour of registered building service contractors and practit...

What this Bill changes mechanically Repeals an earlier Act: the Crimes Child Sex Offenders Amendment Act 2025 is repealed cl 4. Lets an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Commiss...

What this law does, in plain English It authorises the Western Australian Government to withdraw $37,008,834,000 from the Consolidated Account to pay for recurrent day‑to‑day government services and activiti...

What this Bill does mechanics Grants a single capital supply of $10,045,138,000 to be drawn from the Consolidated Account for the financial year beginning 1 July 2026 and ending 30 June 2027 section 31. Stat...

What this Bill does, in plain language The Bill standardises how many ACT government registers and licence lists are published: instead of requiring physical inspection or vague availability, it generally re...

What this Bill changes mechanically Rewrites the core test courts and authorised officers must use when deciding bail new section 22. The decision must explicitly consider: the likelihood the accused will at...

What this Bill does mechanically Inserts a new Part 9C into the Electricity Industry Act 2004 that creates a "Capital Charges Scheme" for certain transmission networks sections 129U–129ZD. The scheme: allows...

What this amendment changes mechanical effect Adds a new, temporary exclusion to the Long Service Leave Portable Schemes Act 2009: employers in the hairdressing & beauty services industry and the accommodati...

The Bill raises fines and makes the Act subject to an infringement‑notice enforcement regime, creates a class of approved public‑service enforcement officers, and grants broad tort immunity to the State and...

What this Bill changes mechanically Cemeteries and crematoria Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2020: Licensees of crematoria must notify the person who arranged a cremation the "applicant" within 7 days that cr...

This Act continues the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and sets out its statutory powers to collect, analyse and share intelligence on serious and organised crime, operate national policing infor...

What this Bill changes, mechanically the "what it does" Adds a new definition for "subdivision development proposal" to allow subdivision design applications to cover creating or consolidating blocks and cre...

What this Bill changes mechanically Adds "child sex offence" to the categories of offending that trigger the unlawful consorting rules in the Criminal Law Unlawful Consorting and Prohibited Insignia Act 2021...

What this Bill does mechanically Applies the national electronic conveyancing law that New South Wales developed the Electronic Conveyancing National Law to Western Australia, with a set of state specific ch...

What this Bill does mechanics Ratifies and embeds a written variation to the 1979 Collie Coal Griffin Agreement into Western Australian law. The variation is printed as Schedule 4 to the Act and is brought i...

What this Bill changes mechanically Replaces and expands one paragraph of the Cat Act 2011 section 793f and adds a new subsection 4 to that section see s.4 of the Bill. The change makes explicit that a local...

What this Bill changes mechanically Introduces a payment withholding power for principals that are State agencies or government trading enterprises GTEs. A head contractor who makes a payment claim must give...

What this Bill does mechanics first Creates a new, standalone scheme Part 12A in the Firearms Act 1996 for "firearm prohibition orders". These are court orders — either short term interim orders or longer fi...

What this Bill changes mechanically Introduces a hard cap on how many firearms a licence can authorise the holder to possess or use. For most licences the cap is either 10 firearms for those with a "relevant...

What this Bill changes mechanically Adds an explicit spatial tool to State Planning Provisions SPPs: the SPPs may now include a map, overlay, list or other provision that shows how the SPPs apply to particul...

What this law does mechanically Gives the Treasurer permission to take $62,913,000 from the state's Public Account and spend it on government services for the year that ends 30 June 2027 see section 4. Says...

What this law does short version It authorises the Treasurer to withdraw and spend $9,104,688,000 from the Public Account for government services in the 2026–27 financial year section 4. It specifies that th...

What this Bill does, in plain English Mechanically, the Bill temporarily raises the First Home Owner Grant FHOG to $20,000 for qualifying first‑home purchases that start between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027...