Senate debates

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

Crimes Legislation Amendment (National Investigative Powers and Witness Protection) Bill 2006 [2007]

In Committee

6:18 pm

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The point you were making was oblique to the real position. The position is to facilitate the examination, and I asked for confirmation that there was use immunity. There is and there always has been use immunity, and it certainly has not been abrogated by these amendments. It is certainly a matter that would have come to the committee’s attention had it been one of the issues being pursued—but it certainly was not.

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