Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I thought your comments about intelligence gathering related to ASIS. The Australian Federal Police, for example, who have access to the AUSTRAC records, are a law enforcement body. So, under this or other legislation, their activities may see people having their bank accounts frozen, because the assumption is that they are financing terrorism. What safeguards are in place through this legislation around anti-money laundering for legitimate people who get caught up—not through the intelligence but through the criminal investigation, or it could have an element of intelligence in it as well—and have their bank accounts frozen because the assumption is that they are financing terrorism? If they are a legitimate business, what do they do?