Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I'd like to thank colleagues for their contributions to the debate on the bill. The measures in the bill are certainly technical in nature. They enhance confidence, certainty and trust in the authorisation process for the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's work and the board's capacity to determine special crime intelligence commission operations and special investigations. The measures are essential to ensuring that the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission is able to fulfil its statutory functions as Australia's national criminal intelligence agency without interruption. The bill will support its capacity to continue to effectively target and disrupt the illicit activities of transnational serious and organised crime groups and to appropriately and lawfully take the fight to serious and organised crime in Australia. I commend the bill to the Senate.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

(Quorum formed)