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

Senator, you are free to contradict me when you get time to jump to your feet. If we still make any humanitarian foreign aid contribution to Iraq, I would be very keen to see it in the budget papers, because it has gone from quite a substantial commitment in the aftermath of the war to approximately zero.

Colleagues, the Australian Greens will not be supporting this bill. I look forward to getting some information from the government, when they come to the committee stage, as to exactly how it proposes to justify to a somewhat sceptical chamber the radical expansion of ASIO's surveillance powers which has come to seem almost like an annual event.