Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present the seventh report of 2013 of the Selection of Bills Committee.

Ordered that the report be adopted.

I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The report read as follows—

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

REPORT NO. 7 OF 2013

1. The committee met in private session on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 7.18 pm.

2. The committee resolved to recommend—That the Telecommunications Amendment (Get a Warrant) Bill 2013 be referred immediately to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 31 October 2013 (see appendix for a statement of reasons for referral).

3. The committee resolved to recommend—That the following bills not be referred to committees:

The committee recommends accordingly.

4. The committee deferred consideration of the following bills to its next meeting:

(Anne McEwen)

Chair

20 June 2013

APPENDIX

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

Proposal to refer a bill to a committee:

Name of bill:

Telecommunications Amendment (Get a Warrant) Bill 2013

Reasons for referral/principal issues for consideration:

The relative merits and human rights and privacy implications should be compared for returning to the pre-2007 warrant authorisation procedures for law enforcement and intelligence agencies wishing to access telecommunications data or maintaining the current warrantless system that provides vast amounts of private data without warrant or judicial oversight.

Possible submissions or evidence from:

Law Council of Australia

Law Society of New South Wales

Liberty Victoria

Australian Lawyers Alliance

Australian Human Rights Commission

Civil Liberties Australia

Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ltd

Dr Patrick Emerton, Monash University Law School

Justice John Dowd, President, Australian chapter of the Int'l Commission of Jurists

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of NSW

Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network

Sydney Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, Sydney University

Australian Federal Police

State and Territory Police Forces

Attorney General's Department

ASIO

Committee to which bill is to be referred:

Legal and Constitutional References Committee

Possible hearing date(s):

July/August

Possible reporting date:

31 October 2013

(signed)

Senator Siewert

Whip/Selection of Bills Committee member