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

Amendments (11) to (19) amend the bill to remove the provisions that enable law enforcement agencies to add a device to device based named person warrants after they are issued. As I indicated, they do a similar thing to what the previous ASIO amendment did. They are consequent technical amendments that have also been made to the proposed provisions of the bill that enable the device based named person warrant to be issued in relation to multiple devices to require all devices to be identified in the warrant. And they do provide the certainty to law enforcement and security agencies and telecommunication carriers of obligations under the act and respond to those matters that were raised during the Senate committee consideration of the bill.

Finally, amendments (20) and (21)—additional reporting requirements for named person warrants—impose a requirement for separate statistical reporting on the number of services intercepted under service based named person warrants and device based named person warrants and reporting on the total number of devices intercepted. These amendments will ensure that statistical information is available and provide greater transparency, further strengthen the extensive reporting provided by the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and address the recommendations made by the Senate committee. I have moved those amendments together, but the question for (16) will be dealt with separately.