David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

I do not want to unduly delay consideration of this amendment, but I do want to place on the record that I will support Greens amendment (12) moved by Senator Wright. I will also support Greens amendment (13). I will support the Labor amendments along the same lines. The intention of each of those is to limit the scope of the bill in relation to advocating terrorism, with various attempts to bring it closer to the definition of 'incitement', which I think is the appropriate approach. The Attorney-General says that 'incitement' is not appropriate. I am not a lawyer, just to make things clear, but I do think that something close to 'incitement' is the appropriate definition for this. I do not intend to speak on these amendments again, but I will be supporting each of these amendments—those of Labor and the Greens—to bring the definition of 'advocating terrorism' to something that I think we can live with.

I have to say that if it comes down to it I am probably an advocate of terrorism in terms of overthrowing the regime in North Korea and perhaps in Zimbabwe as well. We really are talking about specific circumstances in relation to this bill, yet the bill is not specific to those circumstances.