George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Those provisions were developed in consultation with the security agencies and on the basis of the information that they gave to the PJCIS. Since you raise the matter, Senator, can I reassure you—and I do not know how many times I have to say this—that it is not the purpose of this bill to enable, through a process of third-party discovery, access by civil parties in civil litigation of the kind that you refer to, or at all. This is about facilitating criminal investigations.