Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I ask the Attorney-General: why didn't you table it last week so we could have had a reasonable opportunity to go through that report before the start of this debate? Attorney, you just confessed to the Senate that, in fact, you've had this report for somewhere in the region of six weeks. So why wasn't it tabled last week so we could have had a good look through it and an opportunity to use the information and the data in that report to inform this debate? Instead, it was tabled today, two seconds to midnight, just before this debate started. I stand by the criticisms I have made around the timing of this report.

Let's go back to the substantive issue with regard to 315C. We could bat this backwards and forwards all day and the likelihood is, as is so often the case, we would not agree. So I am going to try to shortcut that and ask you a very simple question: is it the case that the secretary of your department can obtain from carriers and carriage service providers, should this legislation pass through the parliament and receive royal assent, information that includes an Australian person's web browsing history?