David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

These amendments are completely unrelated to the subject matter of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (National Investigative Powers and Witness Protection) Bill 2006 [2007] before the Senate. Indeed, may I say, I think it is inappropriate that we deal with these matters in this forum. The government obviously does not support the amendments proposed by the learned senator and, accordingly, they are opposed.