Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I have hit a nerve. Do you accept that the amendments to the bill recommended by the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security do no more than sand a few rough edges off the legislation and that the bill remains fundamentally flawed due to its retrospectivity and its abrogation of the rule of law? On what basis do you believe it acceptable to strip citizenship from Australian nationals without providing for that decision to be either made by the courts or tested in the courts before it is made?