Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that those proposed amendments do propose a redaction of a statement of reasons to remove information that is, or is likely to be, protected by public interest immunity, for example. I think that that, in and of itself, acknowledges in part the complexity in providing reasons under this bill. Any reasons provided, in the government's view, will almost always be subject to public interest immunity because the provision of reasons has the potential to damage Australia's international relations and to damage Australia's defence or national security. So the application of public interest immunity will play large here, in our view.

If you're going to extract detail and to redact in that way, I think that, arguably, it renders this unworkable. You'd just end up redacting everything.