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

I have a few other 'paranoid' questions to put to our Attorney-General. I will try to restate my question, because I do not think he understood where I was coming from. If the Attorney-General decides for whatever reason, good or bad, that new categories of material need to be collected and added to the table we were discussing earlier, the PJCIS agrees, at some point between that decision being made and parliament signing off presumably there will be an obligation on industry to start collecting it, particularly if it is a genuine emergency. If parliament knocks it back, what happens to the material that has been collected in the interim? Is there anything in the bill that creates an obligation to destroy it, is it stranded? What happens to it?