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

The Australian Greens support these amendments. As I said in my speech on the second reading and have indicated before, our concern is that this bill allows the government to have access to telecommunications data that they do not currently have. Currently they require a warrant to tap phone calls. We do not think they should be able to have access to information about who you are calling, where you are calling from and what website you are accessing without obtaining a warrant. The same regime that operates requiring a warrant for telecommunications should operate in relation to this additional information that is now available around telecommunications because of the way mobile phones and the internet operate. The same system should apply across the board. That is why we support these amendments.