Senate debates
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Australian Crime Commission Amendment Bill 2007
First Reading
1:11 pm
Natasha Stott Despoja (SA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source
I will take any interjection from Minister Abetz because I do not know if he has read the bill. It may be a seven-page bill but it has huge ramifications. It removes safeguards which are not only procedural but also form a substantial part of the process for an examiner to be satisfied that a summons or notice to produce ought to be issued. They are fundamental legal concepts, people. Mutter, mutter, mutter! The minister may mock and belittle me if he likes, but I care passionately about the role of this place.
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