This bill amends the Gas Act 1992, and is intended to improve the information available to help the Government monitor gas markets and help market participants make more efficient decisions.
This bill has been accorded urgency in the House, bypassing select committee and its submission window. It passed in a single sitting day. First detected 11 July 2026, 9:21am UTC.
The avenues that remain: petitions to Parliament (including seeking amendment or repeal); consultation on the regulations that often follow an Act, which do carry public submission windows; and the member in charge or your electorate MP on implementation problems — post-passage corrections ride in later amendment bills.
| Stage | Sitting day | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | 28 May 2026 | Introduction of bills: Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
| First reading | 28 May 2026 | The Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill was read a first time. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
| Second reading | 28 May 2026 | The Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill was read a second time. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
| Committee of the whole House | 28 May 2026 | The committee stage of the Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill was completed. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
| Third reading | 28 May 2026 | The Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill was read a third time. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
Dates are sitting days as recorded by the Office of the Clerk; a sitting extended under urgency continues under its original day. Readings are decided by party vote: each party casts its members’ votes en bloc (proxies included), so the whole House needn’t be present and individual attendance isn’t recorded — the party-by-party tally for each reading is in that day’s Hansard, linked per stage above.
Members who took a call in this bill’s debates, from our Hansard corpus. Under urgency several bills are often debated together (a “cognate” debate), so speakers may be addressing the group of bills.
Topics in the OpenBrief corpus matched to this bill’s title, with their volume over the last six weeks — how loud the subject already was when urgency was moved. This is retrieval against our existing corpus, not model judgement.
| Topic | Press items · 6wk | Social posts · 6wk |
|---|---|---|
| insurance market transparency | 1 | 6 |
| political-transparency | 6 | 194 |
AI-assisted analysis · every claim links to primary source ·
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Published 12 Jul 2026, 7:21am UTC (separate from, and later than, the alert timestamp above)
· model: claude-opus-4-8
In short: Creates a regulation-making power letting the Government compel gas industry participants and non-domestic consumers to disclose market information, which may be published.
“requiring an industry participant or a consumer (other than a domestic consumer) to disclose information about gas markets (gas markets information) to the industry body or the Secretary (or both)”
“The industry body or the Secretary (or both) may publish any information disclosed under regulations made under section 56AA (or any analysis or summary of that information)”
“The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:”
“requiring the contents of gas markets information to be independently assessed for accuracy and certified by a person who is approved by the industry body or the Secretary (or both)”
“The Minister may recommend any regulations to require the disclosure of information under this section only if the Minister is satisfied that the disclosure is necessary or desirable for 1 or more of the following purposes:”
Passed without a select committee stage — it passed in a single sitting day.
Method: the model reads the bill as published (claude-opus-4-8); every claim above carries a verbatim span of that text, checked mechanically — claims that fail the check are dropped, not softened. Text analysed from an archived copy of the official text. Full methodology →
Deterministic — no AI involved
Every amendment instruction in the bill, executed mechanically against the archived text of the Act it changes. Struck text is removed, highlighted text is added. 1 operations resolved.
In-place amendments are anchor-verified: the instruction’s own quoted text must occur in the archived provision, which proves the archive is current enough for that operation. Whole-provision replacements show the provision as archived on the date given — later amendments by other Acts, if any, would not appear. Rows marked AI-read had unusually-phrased instructions translated into a standard operation by a model; the translation is checked word-for-word against the instruction, and the change is still applied and verified mechanically. Full methodology →
A motion to accord urgency to the following business was agreed to: - the first reading of the Appropriation (2025/26 Supplementary Estimates) Bill; - the introduction and passing through all stages of: - the Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill (No 3); - the Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill; - the Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill; - the third reading of: - the Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill; - the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill; - the remaining stages of: - the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Amendment Bill; and - the Patents Amendment Bill;
