Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

You said at the very outset of the comments that you made that, to have these powers delegated to them, the affiliate would need to also be an officer of ASIO—which is how you argued the fact that those powers could not then be delegated out to somebody who worked for a foreign intelligence agency, because they would need to be an officer of ASIO. Will all these contractors and subcontractors also need to be defined as officers of ASIO for the purposes of the operation of this amendment?