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

The technicalities may be beyond the scope of what you are able to provide us with, but they are certainly not beyond the scope of the bill. Under item 6, topic column 1, 'The location of equipment, or a line, used in connection with a communication', in the way that the bill is currently drafted:

The following in relation to the equipment or line used to send or receive the communication:

(a) the location of the equipment or line at the start of the communication;

(b) the location of the equipment or line at the end of the communication. Then you have put, helpfully, two examples:

Cell towers, Wi-Fi hotspots. I can see that some of your advisers have arrived, which is good. I do not think that it is anything like outside the scope of the bill to tell us to what degree of accuracy does that allow particular devices to be pinpointed. That is well within the scope of the bill.