Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

Last Thursday, the member for Curtin made a number of false claims during question time about my contributions to national security while in office. In fact, during the previous Labor government, ASIO's funding was increased by 27 per cent, and at no time, when Labor was in office, were there urgent requests for data retention laws from our agencies.

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