Senate debates Crimes Legislation Amendment (National Investigative Powers and Witness Protection) Bill 2006 [2007]

In Committee


David Johnston

David Johnston WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs

5:07 pm

The government does not support opposition amendment (5) as it has the potential to have serious operational consequences should information be revealed that could endanger the success of the operation—which I think is quite obvious. The government does not think that Labor’s amendment, which places an absolute time constraint on controlled operations, is warranted. This could have serious operational ramifications, requiring a long-running operation into money laundering, for example, or terrorist financing, to be aborted at a sensitive stage.

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