David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

I am obliged, as always, to my departmental officers. The Shining Path assets, in the example that the good senator raises, were frozen under part 4 of the Charter of the United Nations Act, which was inserted by the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act, implementing UN Security Council resolutions. Neither ASIS nor ASIO was involved. The list of names that are subject to that act are published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. That is not a matter that falls under the umbrella of what is intended by this legislation. It is an intelligence-gathering mechanism. What is done with the intelligence is not within the purview of this legislation.