Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

So there you have it: nine recommendations of the bipartisan intelligence and security committee that were not implemented by the government and that these amendments that are now before the chamber would implement in full. I would invite the government to agree to these amendments, because all of them improve the legislation that is before the House and all of them are entirely consistent with and fulfilling the recommendations made on a bipartisan basis by six Liberal members of the committee and five Labor members of the committee. It's extremely disappointing that not even those Liberal members of the committee have seen fit to back in the recommendations that they made as recently as April.

Finally, there's a further amendment to the other bill, the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019, which I'll move separately. That amendment would implement recommendation 16 of the committee, which the government has also failed to implement, without explanation.

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