Treasury Laws Amendment (Business Registries Stabilisation and Uplift) Bill 2026

The PRESIDENT (19:03): I will first deal with the second reading amendment circulated by One Nation. The question is that the amendment on sheet 3904 be agreed to. At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) targeting dodgy directors and the cracking down on company phoenixing is a proper public policy objective, (ii) Australians are concerned that privacy protections and personal data security as a whole have not been adequately addressed in an overarching policy framework by this government, and (iii) while schemes like Digital ID and Director ID are often initially proposed as voluntary, they have a tendency to become compulsory and experience significant scope creep; and (b) calls on the Government to: (i) implement stronger universal privacy and data protection laws for Australians, and (ii) commit to never making Digital ID compulsory or coerced under threat of penalty".

Question agreed to. The PRESIDENT: The question now is that the bill be read a second time. Question agreed to.

The PRESIDENT: The question now is that this bill be read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.