Bill
Crimes Amendment (Repeal Mandatory Minimum Sentences) Bill 2025
before parliament, as at 2025-07-23.
- Sponsor
- Faruqi
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-03-26
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- other — 2025-07-21
- other — 2025-07-23
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.
This bill would remove mandatory minimum sentences from Commonwealth law.
It would repeal the sentencing provisions added by the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Act 2025.
The explanatory memorandum does not specify when the repeal would start or whether it applies to existing sentences.
- Repeal mandatory minimum sentence provisions.
- Remove the sentencing rules enacted in the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Act 2025.
- End the requirement for courts to impose a minimum term for certain offences.
People convicted under the hate crimes law, particularly First Nations and other marginalised groups, and the courts that would no longer have to impose fixed minimum sentences.
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