Senate debates
Monday, 4 July 2011
Bills
Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 2) Bill 2011, Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 4) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011, International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2011, Acts Interpretation Amendment Bill 2011, Midwife Professional Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2011, Social Security Legislation Amendment (Job Seeker Compliance) Bill 2011, Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Bill 2011, Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Election Commitments and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 3) Bill 2011, Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011, Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Election Commitments and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill 2011
7:43 pm
Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
Minister, you will be very pleased to hear that when I move the Australian Greens amendments we will in fact be moving some consequential amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 so that the definitions remain entirely consistent. This is not an argument about consistency; it is an argument about appropriateness. Can the minister address the question that in framing—and I will use the same term as you did—the mandate of ASIO to be able to track a vastly larger range of actors you have now brought in groups of people who were up until this point, and I guess that is the whole point of the bill, beyond the range of surveillance and tracking by ASIO, including civil society organisations such as WikiLeaks?
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