Plain-English Summary of Every Schedule

This appendix is a navigation map, not the deep dive.
Each Schedule below tells people what to pay attention to and why.

🔴 SCHEDULE 1 — Criminal Law Amendments (Speech & Expression)
What it does

Increases penalties for using postal or carriage services (internet, phone, messaging, social media) to “menace, harass or cause offence”.

Expands racial vilification offences.

Lowers the bar from intent to impact or risk.

Why it matters

“Offence” is subjective.

Online speech becomes criminal without a clear intent to harm.

Protests, political commentary, memes, reposts, and private messages can all be captured.

What Australians lose

Clear free political communication protections.

The requirement that criminal intent be proven.

🔴 SCHEDULE 2 — Intelligence, Privacy & Data Sharing (ASIO / ACC / ACIC)
What it does

Exempts ASIO and ACC from spent-conviction protections.

Allows use of pardoned, quashed, or spent convictions.

Overrides State and Territory privacy laws.

Allows intelligence use without court oversight.

Why it matters

Your past never dies.

Information can be shared across agencies indefinitely.

No meaningful appeal process.

What Australians lose

Rehabilitation protections.

Privacy finality.

Judicial oversight.

🔴 SCHEDULE 3 — Customs & Prohibited Material
What it does

Expands what is considered “prohibited material”.

Allows seizure of goods based on future risk or suspected use, not actual illegality.

Applies to imports and exports.

Why it matters

Material can be seized before a crime exists.

Academic, journalistic, or research material can be caught.

“Purpose” is assessed by authorities, not courts.

What Australians lose

Presumption of lawful ownership.

Protection against arbitrary seizure.

🔴 SCHEDULE 4 — Firearms (THIS IS THE BIG ONE)

This Schedule is huge and deliberately fragmented.

PART 1 — Firearms Background Checks (Buyback-Style Powers)
What it does

Allows firearms decisions based on intelligence assessments, not convictions.

Intelligence assessments are not reviewable in normal courts.

Uses ACIC / AFP / police intelligence, not judicial findings.

The loophole

Decisions shift from Parliaments & Premiers to:

Police Commissioners

Federal Ministers

National frameworks

This bypasses the John Howard model, where all States had to agree.

Why it matters

This is how a de facto buyback can occur without State votes.

PART 2 — Firearms Background Checks (Expanded Agencies)

ASIO, ACC, ACIC gain expanded authority.

“Risk” replaces “crime”.

Rights lost: due process.

Fallout from overseas conflicts.

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