Bill
Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-11-06. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-08
- second reading — 2025-10-08
- other — 2025-10-28
- second reading — 2025-10-28
- committee — 2025-10-28
- other — 2025-10-29
- third reading — 2025-10-29
- introduced — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-11-05
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- committee — 2025-11-06
- third reading — 2025-11-06
- passed — 2025-11-06
- royal assent — 2025-11-06
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-10-08.
The bill would create a new framework to list foreign state entities that Australia considers sponsors of terrorism.
The Governor-General would add entities to the list on the recommendation of the Australian Federal Police Minister, with the Foreign Affairs Minister's agreement.
New offences would target dealings with listed entities and financing state terrorist acts, with defences for lawful contact.
- Creates a new Part 5.3A in the Criminal Code for state sponsors of terrorism.
- Allows the Governor-General to prescribe foreign state entities as state sponsors of terrorism by regulation.
- Criminalises conducting a state terrorist act, supporting or preparing such an act, and dealings with a listed entity.
- Extends existing counter-terrorism orders under Part 5.3 to the new framework.
- Amends other Commonwealth Acts to apply law enforcement powers to the new provisions.
Foreign state entities that engage in terrorist acts targeting Australia, and persons who deal with or support them.
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