The Western Australian Government has introduced the Equal Opportunity Bill 2026 (Bill) into Parliament. The Bill would repeal and replace the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) (EO Act).

The Bill includes a new positive duty to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate, as far as practicable, unlawful discrimination, harassment, vilification and victimisation. It also includes a stand-alone responsibility to make reasonable adjustments for certain protected attributes, new prohibitions on sex-based harassment and civil vilification, an expanded list of 23 protected attributes (nine of them new to the equal opportunity legislation), a longer two-year complaint period and the removal of the current $40,000 compensation cap.

The Bill is not law and may be amended. Most of the Bill would start on a date to be announced by proclamation.