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

by leave—The Greens oppose items 3, 7 and 13 in schedule 1 in the following terms:

(1)   Schedule 1, item 3, page 3 (lines 13 to 16), item TO BE OPPOSED.

[definition of foreign intelligence]

(2)   Schedule 1, item 7, page 3 (line 24) to page 4 (line 4), item TO BE OPPOSED.

[collection of foreign intelligence]

(3)   Schedule 1, item 13, page 4 (lines 17 to 24), item TO BE OPPOSED.

[collection of foreign intelligence]

I think that they do no more or less than what the Law Council proposed. They oppose the definition of 'foreign intelligence' and the language around the collection of foreign intelligence in two clauses. I will subse­quently move amendment (4), which makes consequential amendments to the Tele­communications (Interception and Access) Act which then change the definition in that act to provide for that consistency that I think all parties are very keen to see remain on the statute books. So, without further debate, I will commend those first three amendments to the chamber.