Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

With respect to the minister, that was not my question, though. The question was not about numbers; the question was about an individual member of the public who is not suspected of having committed an offence and who is not suspected of even in any way being connected with a potential terrorism suspect or any other suspect. It is just a completely innocent member of the public who happens to have their device—their iPad or their phone or their computer—on the same network as someone who is suspected. So my question is not about numbers; it is about the principle. I am asking the minister to explain how this legislation will work in practice. Will that innocent individual member of the public be able to have their phone or device subject to a warrant and therefore subject to all the powers—we will come to that in a moment—simply because they are on the same network as someone who is a suspect? That is my question.

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