John Hogg (President) Share this | Hansard source

That will be noted in the Hansard. The question now is that amendment (1) on sheet 7424 revised, circulated by Senator Xenophon, be agreed to.

Senator Xenophon ' s circulated amendment

(1) Page 74 (after line 7), at the end of Part 5, add:

84 Interception and access

(1) Subsection (2) applies if the Minister is required to prepare a report for the purposes of section 99 or 161 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.

(2) The report must set out, for each enforcement agency, statistics about applications, warrants, interceptions, notices and authorisations made in respect of persons who are:

  (a) members of either of the Houses of Parliament of the Parliament of Australia; or

  (b) members of a parliament of a State or Territory of Australia; or

  (c) journalists.

Question negatived.