David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, (2)(a) and (b) go to the fact that there is a definition of ‘terrorist organisation’ and that the minister must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the organisation is ‘directly or indirectly engaged in, preparing, planning, assisting in or fostering’ terrorist acts. I will not read the whole section. But I understand that the non-statutory criteria that the advice to the Attorney-General then depends on go to questions of an organisation’s engagement in terrorism, its ideology and links to other terrorist groups or networks, its links to Australia, its threats to Australian interests, its proscription by the UN or like-minded countries—obviously, how it behaves in other jurisdictions—and its engagement in peace or mediation processes.