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

So are you able to confidently allay my concerns—and evidently the concerns of the Scrutiny of Bills Committee—that these authorities are still only delegable to people who are officers of ASIO? My reading and my reading of the concerns that have been put by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee is that the categories of persons who can have these powers delegated to them is extremely broad. I wonder, Minister, if you might then explain to us what exactly the change is, because I do not understand exactly how this is drafted in that case? What is the material change: if the delegation power still only includes people who are ASIO officers then what exactly is being changed here?