Scams Prevention Framework Bill 2025

The question is that the Australian Greens amendments on sheets 3294 and 3324 be agreed to. Australian Greens' circulated amendment— SHEET 3294 At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) too many people and their families experience significant harm from scams each year, (ii) instead of implementing a best practice model to prevent scams, Labor has caved to the interests of the major banks and their multi-billion-dollar profits, and (iii) under Labor's bill, it would take a person impacted by a scam up to 30 steps and 2 years to seek redress, and at the end of the process there is no guarantee they will get any of their money back; and (b) calls on the Government to amend the bill to include a presumption of reimbursement, similar to the United Kingdom model, which would require banks to promptly reimburse people who have been scammed, and then recover costs from other businesses involved in the scam in proportion to their liability, including telcos and digital platforms".