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

The government works, in particular through its intelligence agencies and its law enforcement agencies, with counterpart or partner agencies both among the Five Eyes community and with regional partners. At the G20 summit in Hamburg recently, it was the Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull, who led the discussion on the issue of counterterrorism generally and on the particular issue of the challenges posed to investigations by ubiquitous encryption. As well, last month I attended the Five Eyes national security conference in Ottawa, and, the weekend before last, I co-hosted with my Indonesian counterpart minister the first subregional meeting on foreign terrorist fighters and cross-border terrorism. We continue to work internationally and regionally in order to address this menace.