Superannuation Contribution Payments for Paid Parental Leave
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026
House of Representatives
Senate
Assent
Topics
child care family assistance financial hardship paid parental leave social security superannuation tax refunds welfare payments
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Tanya Plibersek ALP
“I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Since this government was elected, we’ve been focused on strengthening Australia’s social security system to make it fairer, easier to access and better able to support people when they need it most. This is one of the fundamental responsibilities of government. We have also been hard at work restoring trust in our social security system.”
Dr Daniel Mulino ALP
“In summing up this debate I’d like to acknowledge the contributions that all members have made in the debate on this important bill, the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill 2026. The government has an ambitious regulatory reform agenda, outlined in the budget, that will reduce regulatory burden by $10.2 billion.”
Melissa McIntosh LIB
“I rise to speak on the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026. The bill comprises nine schedules to make minor and technical amendments across social services, child support and family assistance legislation to ensure the legislation reflects the administrative practices being undertaken for the delivery of payments.”
Jodie Belyea ALP
“At first glance, this bill might appear to deal with matters best left to lawyers, administrators and policy experts. But for the people I represent in Dunkley, these changes have practical consequences.”
“Deputy Speaker Sharkie and the members for Dunkley, Sturt and Capricornia would be interested to know that at the moment I’m reading She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Untold Stories About Great Australian Women by Sita Sargeant, available at the parliamentary gift store and all good bookshops. It details the struggle and the achievements that women have had to be heard in this country.”
“Social security in Australia is underpinned by a simple idea—that, if you fall on hard times, we will be there for you. As Australians, we look after each other, because no Australian should feel like help isn’t there when they need it. We want Australians who are unemployed to be able to concentrate on looking for secure work.”
Zali Steggall IND
“The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026 is described as technical, and in many respects it is. Across nine schedules, it amends social security, family assistance, paid parental leave, administrative review and child support laws, and I welcome the practical reforms that will make the system easier to access, more accurate and more accountable.”
Ash Ambihaipahar ALP
“I rise to speak on the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026. Before I was elected into this place, I spent over a good 10 years as an employment industrial relations lawyer. I also spent a couple of years working at the St Vincent de Paul Society, in New South Wales specifically, as a regional director.”
Kate Chaney IND
“I rise to speak very briefly to the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026. Amongst other changes, this bill strengthens the legislative basis for the automation of a series of social security payments. Now, this is not a bad thing.”
Jo Briskey ALP
“Between 2015 and 2019, the Commonwealth told 433,000 Australians that they owed it money that they did not owe—around $1.7 billion worth. It arrived at those figures by taking a person’s annual income and spreading it evenly across fortnights that they had not worked, which is not how anybody’s working life has ever functioned. Then it put the onus on them to prove otherwise.”
Sarah Witty ALP
“I rise to speak in support of the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026, and I want to begin with a story from an older Melburnian who contacted my office earlier this year. He was approaching 80 years of age. He had recently lost his wife after a long illness.”
Ms ROBERTS
“The incorporated speech read as follows— I would like to support this bill and to speak in favour of the practical, careful and necessary work it represents in strengthening Australia’s social security, family payments and child support systems.”
Tim Ayres ALP
“I table revised explanatory memoranda relating to the bills and I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech es read as follows— SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (TECHNICAL CHANGES NO.”