Portfolio — 14 May 2026

Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh had a substantive parliamentary day on 14 May 2026, spanning defence infrastructure, bilateral security and domestic economic reform. His most consequential contribution was the second reading of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Business Registries Stabilisation) Bill, which frames Australia's business registers as critical national infrastructure and legislates three reforms to strengthen director IDs, expand ASIC's administrative powers, and repeal legacy provisions before a 1 July 2026 deadline.

In his procedural role, Leigh moved approval for the $889.2 million Blamey Barracks Kapooka redevelopment and tabled the National Defence Strategy 2026, the Integrated Investment Program 2026, and the Australia-Indonesia common security treaty — a cluster of defence documents signalling a significant strategic communication day. The two streams together show Leigh acting across both domestic economic governance and national security portfolios on the same sitting day.