Helen Haines (Indi, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I just want to make a brief comment on the bill that has just passed the House, the Foreign Intelligence Legislation Amendment Bill 2021. This bill was introduced this morning. It has just gone through the House this evening. Members of the crossbench were not given any briefing on this bill. We did not get an explanatory memorandum. I note that the minister has just tabled one. I just want to put on Hansard that we've had no opportunity to consider this. Clearly, the opposition has. This is an urgent bill, according to the speeches that I've just heard, late into the evening, just now, and I want to make it very clear that, as a member of this parliament, I've had no opportunity to consider it at all.