Senate debates
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Committees
Intelligence and Security Committee; Government Response to Report
6:13 pm
Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I present the government's response to a report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on its inquiry into the review of the relisting of terrorist organisations. I seek leave to have the document incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows—
Australian Government response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security's report:
Review of the re-listing of Al-Shabaab, Hamas' Izz al-Din al -Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organisations
APRIL 2016
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Review of the re-listing of Al-Shabaab, Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organisations
Tabled 12 October 2015
The Government's Response to the Committee's Recommendations
Recommendation 1
The Committee recommends that the regulations, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list Al-Shabaab, Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organisations not be disallowed.
Response
The Government agrees with the recommendation.
Recommendation 2
The Committee recommends that the regulation, made under the Criminal Code section 102.1, to list the Kurdistan Workers' Party as a terrorist organisation not be disallowed.
Response
The Government agrees with the recommendation.