Jason Wood (La Trobe, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would love to see the member for Melbourne Ports tell Victorian Premier Steve Bracks that this is an absolutely urgent issue. Have a look at what happened in Jordan in 2004. Terrorists got hold of 20 tonnes of chemicals—enough to kill 100,000 people. You must go back and tell the Premier of Victoria to get his act together and share intelligence with other states on the CrimTrac database.

In the UK at the moment, 25 terrorist suspects are in custody under preventative detention legislation. When it comes to our preventative detention legislation, I have not heard the Labor Party say that we can hold a suspect in custody for 14 days. This was recommended by the states, but the Australian Federal Police and state police cannot ask one question of the terrorist suspects. That is an absolute disgrace. We need to have the interview clause removed and allow our law enforcement agencies to do their job. If the same thing happened in Victoria, or anywhere in Australia, our law enforcement agencies would only have 24 hours, under part 1C of the Crimes Act, before the person must be released. (Time expired)

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