Bill
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Amendment (No Jab No Pay Repeal) Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2026-09-16.
- Sponsor
- Antic
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2026-09-16
- second reading — 2026-09-16
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 2025-11-26.
The bill would let parents who object to vaccination on personal, philosophical, religious or medical grounds again receive family assistance payments, reversing a 2015 law that removed that exemption.
A child would meet the immunisation requirement if a recognised provider certifies in writing that they discussed the risks and benefits with the parent, and the parent declares in writing their conscientious objection.
The bill would start the day after it receives royal assent.
- Repeals the 2015 No Jab, No Pay changes to family assistance immunisation requirements.
- Restores conscientious objector exemptions for family assistance payments.
- Defines a conscientious objection as a belief based on personal, philosophical, religious or medical conviction that vaccination under the latest standard schedule should not occur.
- Allows a child aged 7 or older to meet immunisation requirements without a provider discussion or declaration.
Parents who are conscientious objectors to child vaccination, particularly those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and their children.
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