Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I have some questions for the Attorney-General in relation to the sunset provisions. These serve to extend control orders, preventative detention orders and other powers. The former Independent National Security Legislation Monitor recommended that control orders and preventative detention orders be abolished. The government is now seeking to extend the sunset provisions for these powers when the current sunset provisions still have at least a year before they expire. I am interested in understanding: did past independent expert inquiries by the monitor and, in fact, the COAG review of national security legislation get it wrong when they recommended that the preventative detention order regime be removed and that the control order regime be reformed?