Senate debates Asio Legislation Amendment Bill 2006

In Committee


Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett Queensland, Australian Democrats

10:07 pm

One year. So, as I understand it, the UK legislation, which, broadly speaking, is in most respects less hardline across the board than the Australian legislation, has a sunset clause of one year. Here we have the government trying to insist on a sunset clause of 10 years. It is a pretty significant difference for what, as all Labor speakers have said—and I expect most government speakers would acknowledge—is very hardline legislation.

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