David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

Attorney, the publicly stated justification for the data-retention system and obligation to retain data is to deal with terrorism and paedophilia. I acknowledge that the number of law-enforcement agencies with access to the data will be, thankfully, substantially reduced. I think that is commendable. But what will prevent them from using this for the quite wide range of relatively trivial offences that similar data retention involved in the United Kingdom?