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

No. I do not know how many times I have to say this. It is not the purpose of this act to police or enforce the Copyright Act. It is the purpose of this act to deal with the kinds of conduct—the kinds of pathologies if you like: terrorism, paedophilia and organised and transnational crime. That is why the government is bringing forward this legislation. The agencies set out in proposed section 110A are the law enforcement agencies. The law enforcement agencies deal with the entire corpus of the enforcement of the criminal law, that is true. But just as I said to Senator Leyonhjelm last night: we are not interested in using this complex system to enforce parking tickets, nor are we interested in using it to police intellectual property law, because there are other statutes—other mechanisms—to deal with it.