But the commissioners will not be able to create new offences or relax basic rules of conduct for officers.
Tim Watts and Terri Butler, both Labor MPs, introduced a private members' bill to the House of Representatives in October last year that proposed amending the Criminal Code Act 1995 to create new offences for "revenge porn".
This section of the act doesn't create new offences, but imposes a duty upon courts to increase the sentence for any offence aggravated by hostility based on the victim's sexual orientation or disability.
If passed, the bill will create new offences of purchasing sexual services, in the context of prostitution.
It will also create new offences aimed at tackling under-age drinking, and a new licensing regime for lap dancing venues which will give greater local control over their numbers.
Creates new offences relating to the sale, loan, distribution or transmission of terrorist publications.
The act creates new offences of undertaking terrorism training, preparation of or planning a terrorist act and disseminating terrorist publications.
The bill creates new offences that could see people who engage in foreign incursions overseas face life in prison.
It created new offences, which permit the courts of this country to deal with terrorist acts and their planning, wherever in the world those acts are carried out.
The Nauruan Cyber Crime Act, passed in May, created new offences relating to child pornography and to "illegal access" of computers or program data.
Creates new offences relating to making or possessing radioactive devices or material and amends the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act to make it a criminal offence to trespass on a nuclear site, punishable by imprisonment for up to 51 weeks.
