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

Minister, could you tell me what you mean by the word 'releases'? I have seen a few proclamations and they talk in broad terms of the bill. What we have is a whole host of sections within this that have an as yet undetermined commencement date. All I am looking for in this legislation is some certainty so that Australian citizens subjected to the legislation know and are deemed to know where they stand at any given time. How do they keep up with what has commenced and what has not commenced? Is there going to be a proclamation section by section?