Parliament House in Canberra, Australia

The Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023 was first introduced by Liberal Senator Dean Smith in June 2023. It was submitted to Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Legislation Committee for review in November. The Senate held a public hearing on the Amendment on March 22, 2024.

After the debates on August 15 and 21, the bill was passed after gaining support from Liberal, National, Green, and independent senators.

In the process of the bill being passed, the story of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cheng Peiming was widely reported by major media outlets in England, the U.S., and Australia. Mr. Cheng is the first victim found to have survived the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) systematic live organ harvesting. Last month he went to Washington D.C. to give a speech and recount his experience of what happened to him in China.