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

These amendments to the bill would put an arbitrary limit on the scope of warrants and as a consequence are wholly impractical. Labor opposes them for that reason.

In modern conditions, it is easy to imagine a warrant targeting a particular person or a particular group of people could necessitate the use of a number of devices to access data relevant to a security matter. There is no basis for seeking to impose the kind of arbitrary limit this amendment would impose.

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