David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

With your indulgence, Madam Temporary Chair, to add to my earlier remarks, the government asserts that this proposed section aims to protect impressionable and vulnerable people from material encouraging the doing of terrorist acts: for example, as a matter of religious duty. The reference in proposed section 9A(2)(c) does not operate in isolation but, rather, as a part of a very specific set of circumstances which applies where certain actions could have an extremely negative impact on vulnerable persons.