Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

So Mr Gleeson has said not that those disclosures might involve the commission of serious criminal offences under the law of Australia; he said:

… would—

I emphasise the word 'would'—

involve the commission of serious criminal offences under the law of Australia.

I simply make the point—I am not sure how much further I can take it at this stage—that this bill, sold to the people of Australia, about involving the evil that is ISIS, Daesh, whatever you want to call them, could in fact capture a former senior ASIS officer, witness K, or a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory, Mr Collaery, and that they could face their citizenship being stripped because of assertions in respect of section 91.1

That is the point I make. I cannot take it any further. I do thank the Attorney for the direct way he has answered these questions.