Senate debates
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
12:31 pm
Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
These are critical to this debate. The point we are trying to get to is that we are talking about any computer that happens to be owned or used by or on loan from an entity that is funded by the government in these prescribed areas, as I understand it. It does not have to be directly funded by the government. The point I am trying to make here is that these quite extensive and extraordinary powers go, for example, to any NGO that has government funding to provide services in these regions. They are subject to the laws. Am I correct in that?
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