Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The internet has been around for a decade and a half in broad use. We saw the extraordinary violence inflicted by non-state actors on the people of the United States on September 11, and the subsequent attack that killed Australian citizens. We have been in this fluid security environment, you could say, at least since the late 1980s or early 1990s. What does this bill do, after all that period of time, that our intelligence agencies have not been able to do for the last 15, 20 or 30 years? I still feel absolutely no closer at all to understanding that.