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

Thank you, Attorney. I acknowledge that ASIO, AFP and ASIS will only be focusing on serious crime, the kind that you mentioned. But I also note that ASIC and the ACCC are to be included among the list of law-enforcement agencies. My experience with ASIC is that if you do not lodge your annual return they are relentless—relentless—in pursuit of you. The ACCC recently took an egg producer to the Federal Court for not producing their eggs under what they thought were acceptable free-range conditions. In other words, they did not think they had enough space to be justifiably called free range. Can you give me a guarantee that the retained metadata will not be used by ASIC and ACCC and others of the less significant agencies for such types of infractions?