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

As I understand it, we are dealing with removing ‘directly’ from the definition of ‘advocates’ for the purposes of listing organisations. I think this matter might have been commenced just prior to the break for dinner, so there will be as little duplication as I can manage. This is a provision that will remove ‘directly’ from the paragraphs giving the definition of ‘advocates’. It would mean that organisations could potentially avoid being proscribed as terrorist organisations if they were careful to avoid directly counselling or urging or directly providing instruction on the doing of a terrorist act. It is possible that an organisation could indirectly provide instruction on the doing of a terrorist act or indirectly counsel or urge the doing of a terrorist act by drawing attention to material from other organisations or endorsing other organisations that counsel, urge or provide instruction on the doing of a terrorist act.