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

To assist the minister in relation to this—this is an important matter—the IGIS would have oversight of the use of this power, as with any other powers that ASIO has. IGIS is an incredibly powerful oversight mechanism and has the power of a standing royal commission. It can go at any time to an intelligence agency, demand access to any document or any record created by ASIO or any other intelligence agency and very closely scrutinise their conduct.