Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Johnston. I refer to quotes from a discussion last night about torture with the commandant of the Guantanamo Bay gulag who said that interrogation approaches are designed to manipulate the detainee’s emotions and weaknesses to gain his willing cooperation and that he hoped that that philosophy had been employed in the interrogation of David Hicks. Do the Attorney-General and this government believe in torture as a means of influencing evidence and/or pleas before a court? Does this government believe that retrospective charges should be part of a criminal justice system?