James Paterson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition will be supporting these amendments, which go to drafting issues in the bill. All I will add is that of course these are not the only drafting issues identified in the bill. Through the committee process, as articulated by Senator Scarr and Senator Shoebridge in their contributions, it is our view that those other drafting issues should have also been addressed at this opportunity, but that is a matter for the government. If they don't think these are problems and they think that they won't materialise in practice, then we hope they're right and we will be supporting these amendments.