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

Yes, Senator Bushby, I can tell you that this week the government will introduce into the parliament two further pieces of national security legislation. The Criminal Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill will enable Supreme Courts, on the application of the Attorney-General, to make an order for the ongoing detention of high-risk terrorist offenders serving custodial sentences when the court is persuaded to a high degree of probability that they continue to pose an ongoing risk to the community were they to be released upon the expiry of their sentence. The government will also reintroduce the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill, originally introduced in November last year. The revised version of the bill adopts all of the recommendations made on a bipartisan basis by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. Those bills will be the latest instalment in the architecture of protections for which this government is determined to— (Time expired)