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

I do appreciate, Minister, that you are doing your best to inform the Senate. I say that genuinely, and I do appreciate that. I'll set out where I think we've got to, and I'll just put it in the terms that I think you've just used. I know that, if I've got it wrong, you'll stand up and tell me, and I'll give you the opportunity to do that. My understanding is that, if this legislation passes, we'll have a situation in this country where a call-out order can be made to put, for example, the Army on the streets within Australia in a situation where there is civil disobedience and a reasonable likelihood of serious damage to property, if it is beyond the capacity of a state and territory police force to deal with and if they request such a call-out. Is my understanding correct?