Government & Elections

This bill authorises funding for Queensland's Parliament. It approves $519,000 in supplementary funding for unexpected costs in 2019-20, and provides $50.5 million in additional interim funding for 2020-21 because the regular state budget was postponed due to the election.

This bill authorises funding for Queensland Government departments. It approves $1.114 billion in supplementary funding for unexpected costs in 2019-20, and provides $28.6 billion in additional interim funding for 2020-21 because the regular state budget was postponed due to the election.

This bill implements major reforms to Queensland's disaster management and fire services following independent reviews. It transfers disaster management to the Police Commissioner, creates two separate fire services under a new Queensland Fire Department, and expands the Queensland Reconstruction Authority's disaster resilience role.

This bill bans political donations from property developers at both local and state government levels, and strengthens how councillors must declare and manage conflicts of interest. It implements recommendations from the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra investigation into local government corruption risks.

This bill authorises $5.14 million in supplementary funding for Queensland Parliament for unforeseen expenditure during the 2017-18 financial year. It formally approves spending that has already occurred.

This bill authorises $494.9 million in supplementary funding for Queensland Government departments for unforeseen expenditure during the 2017-18 financial year. It formally approves spending that has already occurred.

This bill adopts the national Co-operatives National Law in Queensland, replacing the Cooperatives Act 1997. It brings Queensland into line with all other states and territories by applying a consistent regulatory framework for co-operatives, reducing red tape for businesses operating across state borders.

This bill stops 'claim farming' - where third parties cold-call people to pressure them into making injury claims and sell their details to lawyers. It creates new offences for personal injury and workers' compensation claims, requires law practices to certify compliance, and confirms when workers with terminal conditions can access lump sum compensation.

This bill creates Queensland's first Human Rights Act, establishing statutory protections for 23 fundamental rights including the right to life, liberty, privacy, freedom of expression, and fair treatment. It requires government agencies to act compatibly with human rights and creates a complaint mechanism through the Queensland Human Rights Commission.

This bill provides formal parliamentary approval for $5.407 million in supplementary funding for Queensland Parliament that was spent during the 2024-25 financial year. The Queensland Constitution requires all government spending to be authorised by Parliament, so this bill retrospectively approves unforeseen expenditure that has already occurred and been reviewed by the Auditor-General.

This bill formally approves $5.74 billion in government spending that exceeded the original 2024-25 budget. It's a standard constitutional process - the money has already been spent, and Parliament must now formally authorise it.

This bill extended Queensland's COVID-19 emergency powers from 31 December 2020 until 30 September 2021. It maintained the Chief Health Officer's ability to issue public health directions, continued hotel quarantine cost recovery, and preserved emergency provisions in the Mental Health Act.

This bill establishes Forensic Science Queensland as an independent statutory body following the 2022 Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing, which found serious problems with DNA analysis in Queensland. It creates a Director with statutory independence, a supporting office, and an Advisory Council to ensure forensic services are reliable and impartial.

This bill amends nine health-related Acts to improve how Queensland's health system operates. It strengthens wellbeing protections for health workers, modernises cancer data collection, enables electronic recording of mental health tribunal proceedings, and streamlines several administrative processes including organ donation consent and school vision screening.

This bill bundles together five unrelated policy changes: restructuring the Brisbane 2032 Olympics governance body and requiring a 100-day infrastructure review, abolishing Queensland's treaty process with First Nations peoples, rolling back workplace safety inspection rights for unions, clarifying planning rules for major developments, and making the Public Sector Commissioner harder to dismiss.

This bill re-establishes the Queensland Productivity Commission as an independent statutory body to provide expert advice on productivity, economic growth and regulatory reform. It was an election commitment of the Queensland Government and formalises the Commission's independence while defining its powers to conduct public inquiries, undertake research, and advise on regulatory matters.

This bill implements major reforms to Queensland's emergency services following independent reviews. It transfers the State Emergency Service and marine rescue functions from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services to the Queensland Police Service, and formally establishes the State Disaster Management Group to coordinate disaster response at the highest level.

This bill creates standalone legislation for the State Emergency Service, separating it from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and placing it under Queensland Police Service oversight. It recognises the vital role of approximately 5,400 SES volunteers who respond to floods, storms, and other emergencies across Queensland.

This bill reforms Queensland's electoral laws and government integrity rules. It caps political donations and campaign spending, creates new criminal offences for Ministers and councillors who dishonestly hide conflicts of interest, restricts election signage near polling booths, and increases public funding for political parties to reduce reliance on private donations.

This bill makes wide-ranging amendments to over 35 justice-related Acts to improve court and tribunal efficiency. It modernises the coronial system, strengthens protections for vulnerable witnesses, expands when property offences can be dealt with in Magistrates Courts, and closes gaps in dangerous prisoner supervision laws.

This bill creates an independent advisory and monitoring board to oversee the Public Trustee of Queensland. It responds to a 2021 review that found the Public Trustee needed greater transparency and accountability in how it manages the financial affairs of vulnerable Queenslanders, particularly people with impaired decision-making capacity.

This bill modernises Queensland's police, fire and emergency services legislation. It streamlines police discipline processes, automatically dismisses officers sentenced to imprisonment, strengthens protections for confidential police information, and updates fire safety and emergency response provisions.

This bill establishes the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games as an independent statutory body. The Corporation will plan, organise and deliver the Games in accordance with the Olympic Host Contract signed between the IOC, Queensland Government, Brisbane City Council and Australian Olympic Committee.

This bill makes several changes to Queensland's major sports facilities and major events laws. It allows Gold Coast stadiums to host concerts until 10:30pm (matching Suncorp Stadium), significantly increases penalties for ticket scalping, and modernises Stadiums Queensland's board governance arrangements.

This bill implements reforms across gambling, wagering and charitable fundraising sectors following casino integrity failures in other states. It strengthens casino regulation with new duties and penalties up to $50 million, modernises gambling laws for cashless payments, allows betting on simulated racing events at retail outlets, extends New Year's Eve gaming hours, and lets nationally-registered charities fundraise in Queensland without separate state approval.

This bill makes sweeping changes across Queensland's natural resources, land, water and energy laws. It streamlines exploration permit processes with 15-year caps and more flexible work programs, creates a new dispute resolution system for state land subleases, strengthens water compliance enforcement, and establishes CleanCo as a government clean energy company to boost electricity market competition.

This bill extends Queensland's COVID-19 emergency laws from 31 December 2020 to 30 April 2021, allowing continued pandemic response measures. It also makes separate changes to how council vacancies are filled, supports artisan distillers, and extends the Small Business Commissioner role.

This bill enables the State Government to implement The Spit Master Plan, a 2019 vision for transforming The Spit on the Gold Coast into improved public spaces with better community facilities and environmental connections. It commits $60 million in State funding and expands the Gold Coast Waterways Authority to deliver capital works.

This bill modernises the rules for Queensland's 22,660 incorporated associations and charitable organisations. It cuts red tape by allowing groups registered with the national charities regulator to avoid submitting duplicate financial reports to Queensland, introduces clearer governance standards for committee members, and updates processes that had not been reformed since 2007.

This bill makes wide-ranging updates to Queensland's justice system, covering courts, tribunals, the legal profession, electoral processes, and victim recognition. It brings significant changes including allowing public identification of sexual offence defendants before committal, better recognition of unborn children's deaths in criminal proceedings, stronger oversight of JPs, and various administrative improvements.

This bill implements the Queensland Government's debt reduction and savings plan by restructuring government agencies and transferring some functions to the private sector or other departments. It transfers the land titles registry to a new private operator, abolishes Building Queensland, the Queensland Productivity Commission, and the Public Safety Business Agency, and changes how the National Injury Insurance Scheme Agency is governed.

This bill authorises funding for the Queensland Parliament for the 2025-26 financial year. It allocates $146.5 million to the Legislative Assembly and parliamentary service, and provides interim funding for early 2026-27.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $105.4 billion in the 2025-26 financial year. It is the standard annual budget bill required by law that allows departments to fund public services.

This bill implements 2025-26 State Budget measures and makes technical amendments across multiple areas. It extends financial support for first home buyers and employers of apprentices, creates backup tax mechanisms to protect foreign property surcharge revenue, clarifies penalty enforcement rules, validates an electricity authority transfer, and reforms how parliamentary Estimates hearings are chaired.

This bill extends commercial beekeeping access in specified national parks for 20 years until 2044, creates new offences for impersonating park rangers, and updates governance arrangements for the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It delivers an election commitment to beekeepers while strengthening enforcement against people who deceive park visitors by pretending to be rangers.

This bill would have modernised Queensland's land valuation system - the framework that determines property values for calculating rates and land tax. It proposed streamlining the objection process, giving the valuer-general power to make binding guidelines for complex properties, and allowing valuation notices to be sent by SMS. The bill lapsed at the end of the 57th Parliament and did not become law.

This bill locks in Queensland's progressive coal royalty rates by preventing them from being reduced through regulation alone. Any future government wanting to lower coal royalties must pass legislation through Parliament, ensuring public debate and transparency.

This bill updates Queensland's spatial positioning framework to the national GDA2020 standard, ensuring maps stay accurate as Australia drifts north-east. It also creates easier pathways for Traditional Owners to receive land under Indigenous Land Use Agreements and streamlines state land lease renewals.

This bill would have created criminal offences for Cabinet ministers who fail to declare conflicts of interest. It was a private member's bill introduced by the Opposition Leader following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation. The bill lapsed and did not become law.

This bill makes amendments across multiple unrelated areas of Queensland law. It expands electronic conveyancing for property transactions, gives legislative effect to beneficial tax administrative arrangements, supports the State Penalties Enforcement Registry's new service delivery model, addresses a legal loophole allowing homemade alcohol production in discrete Indigenous communities, clarifies cultural heritage provisions following a Supreme Court decision, and streamlines Cross River Rail administration.

This bill replaces the nearly 80-year-old legislation governing the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), one of Australia's leading medical research organisations. It modernises governance arrangements, introduces integrity safeguards for Council members, and creates a framework for rewarding researchers when their work is commercialised.

This bill establishes the Queensland Veterans' Council as a new statutory body to manage Anzac Square (the State's war memorial), administer the Anzac Day Trust Fund that supports veterans' organisations, and advise government on veterans' matters. It consolidates three separate governance arrangements into one organisation with formal representation from the veterans' community.

This bill authorised approximately $4.8 billion in emergency funding for Queensland's COVID-19 relief efforts. It provided $3.18 billion for the remainder of 2019-20 and $1.61 billion for early 2020-21 to protect jobs and support the economy during the pandemic.

This bill establishes Queensland's legal framework for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. It protects renters and small businesses from eviction, allows Parliament and courts to operate remotely, and enables documents like wills to be witnessed via video link.

This bill creates Queensland's formal framework for negotiating treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It establishes an independent First Nations Treaty Institute to support communities to become treaty-ready and participate in negotiations, and a Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry to document the impacts of colonisation.

This bill updates Queensland's waste laws with several environmental protection measures. It bans the outdoor release of helium balloons and sky lanterns, removes the levy exemption for clean earth sent to landfill, introduces circular economy principles, and phases out exemptions for banned plastics attached to products like juice boxes.

This bill extended Queensland's COVID-19 public health emergency powers from 30 April 2022 until 31 October 2022. It maintained the Chief Health Officer's ability to issue public health directions for mask wearing, quarantine, and movement restrictions while allowing most temporary economic measures introduced during the pandemic to expire.

This bill would have required the Queensland Government to be more open about Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) used to deliver major infrastructure like roads, hospitals, and Olympic venues. It responded to audit findings that the public has limited visibility into whether these deals represent value for money. The bill lapsed at the end of the 57th Parliament and did not become law.

This bill allows adults serving community-based sentences in Queensland to have their sentences formally transferred to another state or territory when they move interstate. It replaces informal arrangements with a proper legal framework that ensures offenders can be supervised and held accountable wherever they live in Australia.

This bill dissolved Ipswich City Council and removed all councillors from office following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation that found serious corruption and governance failures. An interim administrator was appointed to run the council until residents could elect new councillors at the 2020 local government elections.

This bill allocates $146.7 million to fund the Queensland Parliament for the 2022-23 financial year. It also provides interim funding for 2023-24 to ensure Parliament continues operating until the next annual budget is passed.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $69.86 billion in the 2022-23 financial year. It is the legal mechanism that allows government departments to operate and deliver services to Queenslanders.

This bill implements major revenue changes from the 2021-22 and 2022-23 State Budgets. It reforms land tax to account for interstate property holdings, introduces higher coal royalties during high price periods, creates a mental health levy on large employers, and provides various stamp duty exemptions for small businesses, retirement visa holders, and deceased estates.

This bill establishes Queensland's first Cross-Border Commissioner, a new statutory role dedicated to helping communities along Queensland's borders with New South Wales, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. The Commissioner will work across governments to resolve issues caused by different state regulations and improve service delivery for border residents.

This bill reforms Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) to help address Queensland's housing supply shortage. It gives EDQ expanded powers to deliver social and affordable housing, creates new 'Place Renewal Areas' for coordinated urban renewal, grants compulsory land acquisition powers, and restructures EDQ as an independent statutory body with its own board and CEO.

This bill restores the Crime and Corruption Commission's power to publicly report on corruption matters, after a 2023 High Court decision found this power was never properly authorised by law. It creates new safeguards to protect individuals who may be named in reports, while ensuring the CCC can continue its vital role exposing public sector corruption.

This bill reforms Queensland's local government laws to reduce red tape and empower councils. It simplifies conflict of interest rules, removes lower-level conduct complaints from the formal system, gives councils more control over senior staff appointments, and streamlines electoral processes.

This bill authorises extra government funding to pay for energy rebates on Queensland household power bills. It allows unforeseen expenditure from the Consolidated Fund to deliver urgent cost of living relief.

This bill allows the Commonwealth's Help to Buy shared equity scheme to operate in Queensland by referring the necessary legislative power to the federal Parliament. Queensland is the first state to pass this legislation, enabling eligible Queenslanders to access government assistance to buy their first home with just a 2% deposit.

This bill authorises $639,000 in supplementary funding for the Queensland Parliament to cover unforeseen expenditure during 2018-19. It is a routine budget measure that formally approves spending that exceeded the original appropriation, as required by the Queensland Constitution.

This bill provides formal Parliamentary approval for $1.397 billion in supplementary government spending that occurred in 2018-19. Under Queensland's Constitution, all government expenditure from the Consolidated Fund must be authorised by Parliament, even when spending has already occurred with Governor in Council approval.

This bill makes wide-ranging improvements to Queensland's economic development and planning legislation. It streamlines how Priority Development Areas are managed, expands the Queensland Reconstruction Authority's role to include disaster prevention and resilience (not just recovery), and makes administrative improvements to infrastructure planning and the planning courts.

This bill amends over 20 Queensland Acts to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. It provides financial relief for businesses and individuals, expands emergency powers for health and corrective services, and gives government agencies operational flexibility during the pandemic. Most provisions were set to expire on 31 December 2020.

This bill overhauls how Queensland reviews the deaths of children known to child protection services. It requires multiple government agencies (not just Child Safety) to conduct reviews when a vulnerable child dies, and creates a new independent Child Death Review Board to identify systemic problems and publicly report on what needs to change.

This bill sought to reintroduce optional preferential voting for Queensland state elections. Under the proposed system, voters could mark just their first choice candidate without having to number every box on the ballot paper. This bill was introduced by a non-government member and lapsed at the end of the 56th Parliament without becoming law.

This bill gives Queensland authorities emergency powers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It allows the Chief Health Officer to issue binding directions restricting movement and gatherings, order isolation and quarantine, and close facilities. It also provides flexibility for elections and planning approvals during the emergency.

This bill establishes the Queensland Academy of Sport as an independent statutory body, separate from the Department of Sport. The change is designed to give the Academy greater flexibility and agility in supporting elite Queensland athletes, particularly in preparation for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

This bill modernises how Stadiums Queensland, the body that manages the state's major sports venues, is governed and operates. It implements Stadium Taskforce recommendations to make the organisation more agile, expands its commercial functions, and streamlines ministerial oversight including giving the Minister power to direct the organisation for major events like the Olympics.

This bill establishes the Games Venue and Legacy Delivery Authority to ensure Queensland can deliver venues, villages, and infrastructure for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games on time and on budget. The authority will operate independently with its own board but ultimately the State guarantees to cover any financial shortfall.

This bill modernises Queensland's land, resources and environmental regulatory frameworks. It streamlines lease conversion and renewal processes, allows local governments to keep stock route revenue for maintenance, updates publication requirements from newspapers to digital media, and creates pathways for mining lease transfers.

This bill modernises Queensland's fine enforcement system by centralising management of camera-detected offences under a single agency, while also securing rental bonds with a government guarantee and reducing land tax for Special Disability Trusts.

This bill modernises Queensland Police Service operations by cutting red tape and updating procedures. It allows senior police officers to witness certain legal documents instead of requiring Justices of the Peace, expands court powers to order access to seized phones and computers, and updates drug testing procedures for officers involved in serious incidents.

This bill reforms Queensland public sector employment laws to give government workers greater job security and fairer treatment. It makes permanent employment the default, creates pathways for temporary and casual workers to become permanent, and establishes positive performance management principles that emphasise support over discipline.

This bill changes how Queensland calculates petroleum royalties and modernises royalty administration for both petroleum and minerals. From 1 October 2020, petroleum royalty is based on production volume rather than the previous complex 'wellhead value' method, providing greater certainty for the coal seam gas and LNG industry.

This bill implements major integrity reforms recommended by the Coaldrake and Yearbury reviews. It overhauls lobbying regulation to stop conflicts of interest and 'dual hatting', strengthens the independence of Queensland's five core integrity bodies by giving parliamentary committees more say in appointments and funding, and expands the Ombudsman's powers to investigate non-government organisations that deliver government services.

This bill extended Queensland's COVID-19 emergency measures from September 2021 to April 2022, continuing public health powers, quarantine requirements, and economic protections while vaccines were being rolled out. It also improved the quarantine fee system by allowing prepayment and third-party liability arrangements for traveller cohorts like seasonal workers.

This bill would have banned all for-profit corporations from making political donations in Queensland. It was a private member's bill from the Greens that failed at the second reading and did not become law.

This bill ensures Suncorp remains headquartered in Queensland after selling its banking business to ANZ. It updates existing legislation to require Suncorp's insurance business to maintain its registered office, head office, key corporate functions, and at least one board director in Queensland.

This bill modernises how security is provided at Queensland government buildings by merging two categories of security officers into one and giving them clearer legal powers. It repeals the outdated 1983 State Buildings Protective Security Act and moves relevant provisions into existing police legislation, better integrating Protective Services into Queensland Police Service.

This bill declared 22 September 2022 as a one-off public holiday in Queensland for the National Day of Mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. It ensured all standard public holiday entitlements applied to the day.

This bill formally authorises $1,795,000 in supplementary funding for the Queensland Parliament to cover unforeseen expenditure during the 2020-21 financial year. Under Queensland's Constitution, all government spending must be approved by Parliament, so this bill provides that formal approval for spending that has already occurred.

This bill formally authorises $447.5 million in additional government spending that occurred during the 2020-21 financial year. Under Queensland's Constitution, all government expenditure must be approved by Parliament, so this supplementary appropriation bill retrospectively authorises spending that exceeded original budget allocations.

This bill provides the annual budget for Queensland's Parliament, appropriating $103.3 million for the 2021-22 financial year. It also provides interim funding of $51.7 million for 2022-23 to keep Parliament operating until the next budget is passed.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government's budget for the 2021-22 financial year, appropriating $63.5 billion to fund all government departments and services. It also provides interim funding of $31.8 billion for the start of 2022-23 until the next budget bill passes.

This bill gives the Director-General of Premier and Cabinet and the Clerk of Parliament explicit legal power to conduct criminal history checks on staff working in ministerial offices, electorate offices, and the Parliamentary Service. It formalises interim procedures that were already in place and aligns with criminal history check powers that exist for other Queensland public servants.

This bill reforms Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission following the 2022 Fitzgerald-Wilson Commission of Inquiry and parliamentary reviews. It requires the Director of Public Prosecutions to advise on corruption charges before they are laid, extends journalist shield laws to CCC proceedings, and changes how CCC Commissioners are appointed and how long they can serve.

This bill updates Queensland's rules for when businesses can access major infrastructure like rail networks and coal terminals. It aligns Queensland's access regime with national competition standards and makes the Queensland Competition Authority more accountable when processing applications.

This bill validates council rates and charges that may have been technically invalid due to a procedural issue identified by the Supreme Court. In 2017, the court ruled that Fraser Coast Regional Council's rates were invalid because the council adopted its budget without passing a specific resolution on what rates to levy. This bill retrospectively validates rates levied by all Queensland councils up to 30 June 2018.

This bill strengthens Queensland's anti-corruption framework by widening what counts as 'corrupt conduct' and giving the Crime and Corruption Commission broader powers to investigate and prevent corruption. It implements government election commitments and Parliamentary committee recommendations to make the Commission more effective.

This bill modernises Queensland's guardianship laws to better protect adults who cannot make their own decisions due to illness, disability or age. It strengthens safeguards against abuse by attorneys and administrators, aligns the system with international human rights standards, and improves accountability when things go wrong. The bill also makes separate changes to integrity advice for public servants and corruption reporting by government corporations.

This bill overhauls the system for handling complaints about councillor conduct in Queensland. It creates an Independent Assessor to investigate complaints, replacing the previous system where council CEOs had conflicts of interest in assessing complaints against their own councillors. A new Councillor Conduct Tribunal will hear serious misconduct matters, with appeal rights to QCAT.

This bill makes wide-ranging changes to how Queensland manages state land, names places, and ensures resource companies pay their local council rates. It streamlines land administration by removing duplicate assessments, makes it easier to change offensive place names and recognise First Nations names, and gives local governments stronger tools to collect rates from petroleum, geothermal, and greenhouse gas companies.

This bill would have removed state-imposed caps on infrastructure charges that local governments can levy on property developers. It lapsed at the end of the 57th Parliament and did not become law. The bill was introduced by a Greens MP and aimed to give councils more flexibility to charge developers for the true cost of providing infrastructure like parks, footpaths, and flood mitigation.

This bill officially makes the Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Queensland's State fossil emblem, and fixes several technical issues with parliamentary procedures including remote committee participation, privacy for unwell MPs using proxy votes, and the definition of the parliamentary precinct.

This bill establishes a Queensland Future Fund framework, starting with the Debt Retirement Fund to quarantine money specifically for paying down State debt. It also provides a new legislated guarantee that the State will fully fund public sector defined benefit superannuation. The model is based on similar NSW legislation to satisfy credit rating agencies.

This bill adopts the Commonwealth Therapeutic Goods Act as a law of Queensland, ensuring all therapeutic goods manufacturers meet national safety and quality standards. It closes a regulatory gap that allowed small local manufacturers operating as sole traders or partnerships to produce unregulated medicines, herbal remedies and vitamin supplements.

This bill puts frontline health workers on Hospital and Health Boards and cracks down on illegal vaping. It requires each hospital board to include at least one doctor, nurse or allied health professional who actually works at that hospital. It also allows Queensland Health to immediately destroy seized vaping products rather than storing them for weeks, and lets courts make convicted sellers pay enforcement costs.

This bill simplifies Queensland's payment protection rules for building subcontractors and implements governance reforms for the building industry regulator. It clarifies trust account requirements, makes the QBCC Board more transparent, and streamlines licensing processes for builders and trades.

This bill makes wide-ranging changes to eight Queensland health laws. The main reforms include strengthening oversight of IVF clinics while adding flexibility for families facing hardship, allowing the government to remove health board members more easily, requiring cosmetic surgery facilities to meet new national safety standards, and creating a legal framework to maximise organ donation opportunities.

This bill replaces the Public Service Act 2008 with a modernised framework for Queensland's entire public sector. It implements recommendations from the Bridgman Review and Coaldrake Report to strengthen employment security, promote equity and diversity, support the government's relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and improve public sector governance.

This bill strengthens the independence of Queensland's key integrity watchdogs by implementing recommendations from the Coaldrake Report. It makes the Auditor-General an officer of Parliament, creates a formal Office of the Integrity Commissioner, and introduces penalties for unregistered lobbying.

This bill reforms Queensland's system for handling complaints about local councillor conduct. It makes the process faster by requiring upfront assessments of complaints, sets time limits for making complaints, and focuses resources on serious misconduct rather than minor breaches. The bill also introduces mandatory training for councillors and strengthens conflict of interest rules.

This bill authorises $142.189 million for Parliament's operations in 2023-24, covering the Legislative Assembly and parliamentary service. It also provides $71.095 million in interim funding for 2024-25 to keep Parliament running until the next budget is passed.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $78.4 billion in the 2023-24 financial year. It is the annual budget appropriation required by law, funding all government departments and services.

This bill reforms Queensland's police discipline system, which had been criticised for lengthy delays, outdated sanctions, and overly legalistic processes. It introduces mandatory timeframes for resolving complaints, modernises disciplinary options to include rehabilitation measures, creates a faster process for straightforward matters, and strengthens oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

This bill provides the annual budget for Queensland Parliament. It authorises $97.2 million for the 2018-19 financial year to fund the Legislative Assembly and parliamentary service, plus interim funding for early 2019-20.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $53.2 billion in the 2018-19 financial year. It is the annual appropriation bill that gives departments legal authority to access their budget allocations for delivering public services.

This bill introduces a 15% point-of-consumption betting tax on the net wagering revenue of betting operators from bets made by customers in Queensland. It replaces the old point-of-supply tax system, ensuring that Queensland collects tax revenue based on where punters are located when they bet, rather than where the betting company is licensed. This brings Queensland into line with South Australia and Victoria.

This bill validates the use of electronic systems for automatically issuing routine environmental and wildlife permits. It confirms that permits automatically issued since 2017 are legally valid and ensures environmental enforcement tools remain effective after recent legislative changes.

This bill replaces Queensland's 20-year-old public records law to bring it into the digital age. It modernises how government records are defined, managed, and accessed, while formally recognising the importance of public records for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and creating new advisory bodies to ensure their interests are considered.

This bill strengthens how Queensland government agencies protect and handle personal information. It requires agencies to notify people when data breaches occur, creates consistent privacy principles across government, and gives the Information Commissioner stronger powers to investigate privacy issues. It also streamlines how people can access and correct their personal information held by government.

This bill authorises $2,185,000 in supplementary funding for Parliament to cover unforeseen expenditure from the 2021-22 financial year. It is a routine accountability measure required by the Queensland Constitution to formally approve spending that has already occurred.

This bill authorises $2.82 billion in supplementary government expenditure for the 2021-22 financial year. It formally approves spending that exceeded original budget allocations, as required by Queensland's Constitution.

This bill strengthens how Queensland measures and monitors non-urban water use, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin. It requires water entitlement holders to use approved measurement devices or develop certified measurement plans, and enables telemetry for real-time compliance monitoring. The bill also makes various administrative improvements to water authority governance and water supply regulation.

This bill would have strengthened First Nations recognition across Queensland's five major arts institutions - the Art Gallery, Museum, State Library, QPAC, and Queensland Theatre. It required each board to include at least two Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander members and created dedicated First Nations Committees to guide cultural governance. The bill lapsed and did not become law.

This bill provides the annual budget for Queensland Parliament's operations in 2024-25. It appropriates $131.9 million for the Legislative Assembly and parliamentary service, plus interim funding for the first half of 2025-26.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $90.4 billion in 2024-25 to fund all government departments and services. It also provides interim funding for early 2025-26 and addresses unforeseen spending from the previous year.

This bill provides the annual budget allocation for Queensland's Parliament. It appropriates $100 million for the 2019-20 financial year to fund the Legislative Assembly and parliamentary service, plus $50 million in interim supply for 2020-21.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $54.7 billion from the Consolidated Fund for the 2019-20 financial year. It is the annual budget appropriation bill that gives departments legal authority to spend their allocated funds on services for Queenslanders.

This bill implements the 2019-20 Budget revenue measures, making significant changes to land tax, payroll tax, and petroleum royalties. It raises taxes on large landholders and foreign property owners while providing relief for small businesses, regional employers, and those who hire apprentices.

This bill strengthens the national framework for regulating Australia's 800,000+ registered health practitioners. It gives regulators new powers to protect the public from dangerous practitioners, improves information sharing about risky practitioners, and requires the health system to provide culturally safe care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

This bill extends Queensland's COVID-19 emergency laws until 30 September 2021 and gives local governments more flexibility during the pandemic. It covers extensions to temporary regulations across many areas of life, allows councils to adjust rates outside normal budget cycles, and creates new rules for holding COVID-safe local government elections.

This bill makes wide-ranging changes to Queensland's electoral laws. It restricts voting rights for prisoners serving sentences of one year or more, removes the ban on property developer donations for state elections, allows political parties to borrow from banks for campaigns, changes donation caps to apply per financial year instead of per election cycle, removes Electoral Commission oversight of party preselections, and extends the period for authorisation requirements on election materials.

This bill reforms Queensland's planning laws to speed up housing delivery. It gives the State new powers to fast-track priority developments like affordable housing, acquire land for critical infrastructure, and create 'holding zones' for future growth areas. It also validates past development approvals that were called into question by a court ruling.

This bill gives the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) clear legal power to publicly report on corruption investigations and make public statements. It responds to a 2023 High Court decision that found the CCC had been publishing reports without proper legal authority. The bill implements recommendations from an independent review to balance government transparency with protections for individuals who are investigated.

This bill formally authorises $4.2 million in additional spending for Queensland's Parliament that occurred during the 2023-24 financial year. Under the Queensland Constitution, all government expenditure must be approved by Parliament, including costs that exceeded the original budget.

This bill formally authorises $1.128 billion in additional government spending that occurred during the 2023-24 financial year. It is a routine constitutional requirement ensuring Parliament approves all payments from Queensland's Consolidated Fund, including unforeseen expenditure across 13 departments.

This bill authorises $1.24 billion in supplementary government expenditure for the 2022-23 financial year. When government departments spend more than their original budget allocations, Parliament must formally approve that spending under Queensland's Constitution.

This bill ended Queensland's COVID-19 emergency powers and replaced them with more limited, time-bound powers expiring on 31 October 2023. The Chief Health Officer retained authority to issue directions only for isolation, quarantine, masks and worker vaccination in vulnerable settings, with new requirements for parliamentary oversight and public justification.

This bill enables the merger of QSuper and Sunsuper to create Australia's second-largest superannuation fund, managing around $200 billion. It restructures how the fund is governed while protecting existing benefits for Queensland public sector employees.

This bill reduces the QUT Council from 22 to 15 members to align with national best practice guidelines for university governance. It cuts the number of government-appointed and elected positions while increasing Council-appointed members, and requires student representation to include both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This bill introduces a community benefit system requiring developers of major projects to conduct social impact assessments and negotiate community benefit agreements with local governments before lodging development applications. It also streamlines governance and removes planning approval requirements for Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues to ensure they are delivered on time.

This bill reforms Queensland's State electoral system to improve integrity, transparency and efficiency. It implements anti-corruption recommendations from the Crime and Corruption Commission's Belcarra investigation, modernises voting procedures based on lessons from the 2016 elections, and updates electoral laws to reflect Queensland's move to four-year fixed parliamentary terms.

This bill implements the second stage of reforms following the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra investigation into local government corruption. It strengthens electoral donation disclosure, introduces mandatory candidate training, tightens conflict of interest rules, and applies the same accountability framework to Brisbane City Council that applies to all other Queensland councils.

This bill introduces spending caps for Queensland local government elections to create fairer campaigns. It limits how much candidates, political parties, and third parties can spend on advertising and other campaign activities, and requires detailed disclosure of campaign finances.

This bill appropriates $101.8 million for Queensland Parliament's operations in 2020-21. It also provides interim funding of $50.9 million for early 2021-22 to ensure parliament can keep running until the next budget bill passes.

This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend approximately $60.86 billion in the 2020-21 financial year. It funds all government departments and services, and provides interim funding to keep government operating into the following financial year.