Bill
We All Come Together For Country Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Dorinda Cox
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-03-26
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-03-26.
The bill would make it illegal to release emissions that damage culturally significant First Nations rock art and other national monuments.
It would create a new category of controlled action under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for emissions that harm monument surfaces.
The explanatory memorandum says the bill addresses a gap in current law, which does not treat such emissions as a matter of national environmental significance.
- Creates a new class of controlled action under the EPBC Act for emissions that damage monument surfaces.
- Applies penalties under the EPBC Act to entities that continue polluting after emissions are shown to degrade rock art or other monuments.
- Recognises culturally, historically, scientifically and archaeologically significant rock art as a type of national monument.
First Nations communities, owners of rock art and national heritage monuments, and industrial entities that release airborne emissions.
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