David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Further down your subsection (3), you have provided some exemptions which I know are very, very important for the substance of the act through a whole lot of activities. Those activities include broking, arranging—all of those. What you do is you exempt:

… a person who is a member of the Australian Defence Force, an APS employee, a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police or a member of the police force of a State or Territory; and

(b) he or she supplies the DSGL technology in the course of his or her duties as such a person.

That is a very important exemption that I am pleased to see in this section but there are many other sections—can I draw the departmental officials' attention to—that could equally benefit from having that exemption put in. It concerns me that there are a number of places in the legislation where that exemption has not been put in. I think it would be good if we looked at that closely to achieve that purpose.