Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I have one more question on this. It is really, I suppose, to make sure that it is clearly on the record that the joint committee of this parliament which was established to assess legislation as against Australia's international law obligations has recommended that to avoid the disproportionate limitation on the right to privacy that would result from disclosing telecommunications data for the investigation of any offence, the bill be amended to limit disclosure authorisation for existing data to instances where it is reasonably necessary for the investigation of specified serious crimes; categories of serious crimes; or the investigation of serious matters by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. That was a unanimous recommendation of the committee. Why are you not prepared to place weight on that recommendation, Attorney?