This Bill brief provides an overview of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025 in Victoria, including the background to its introduction, the proposed amendments and responses to the Bill. It concludes with a comparison of relevant legislation across Australia. If passed, the Bill will make several changes to the voluntary assisted dying program.

This report presents a summary of an examination of the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025. The objectives of the Bill are to increase community awareness to help protect children via a public register and to guard against misuse of offender information. The committee recommends that the Bill be...

The Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 introduced in Victoria will give effect to the first treaty in Australia between First Peoples and a government if it passes both Houses of Parliament. This brief provides an overview of the Bill and the process leading up to its introduction. It covers insights into the key pillars of Treaty.

This report traces the journey from Whitlam’s first Human Rights Bill in 1973 and examines how successive governments have tried and failed to deliver a Human Rights Act. It highlights the significant opportunity the Australian Government has to now establish an Australian Human Rights Act.

The final report from an inquiry into voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in the Northern Territory (NT). VAD is not currently legal in the NT. The report recommends that VAD legislation be adopted. It contains the Committee’s 86 recommendations including drafting instructions. A series of guiding principles are recommended to be reflected in the VAD legislation.