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

by leave—I wish to make some brief remarks on the report. I simply wish to say that the chair has tabled the report of the intelligence committee on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill, and I need to clarify that there is not a dissenting report from Labor members; there is additional comment from Labor members—because Labor members of the intelligence committee support the passage of this bill, and Labor will be supporting the passage of this bill.

There are seven recommendations in the report which Labor very much hopes the government will accept, because all of them will improve the safeguards that are necessary when this parliament legislates for powers that are as extensive as the power that is conferred on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation by this bill. We would hope to see further changes made, and that's what the additional comment by Labor members deals with. I say again: the Labor members' recommendation to this parliament is that the bill should be supported by the parliament.

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