George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator O'Sullivan, the attorneys and the ministers reaffirmed the importance of the Five Eyes—that is, the five great English-speaking democracies—continuing to work closely together on law enforcement and security matters, particularly in relation to counter-terrorism. And, in furtherance of those efforts, we agreed to undertake to further coordinate activity to counter violent extremism, including pooling of information as to CVE programs that work to best effect. We agreed that together we would address concerns about law enforcement access to encrypted information. We established an officials working group to arrive at a common position on the doctrine of self-defence under international law. We agreed to work towards even greater sharing of security and law enforcement information among the five countries, in particular enhanced sharing of information in relation to flows of migrants. (Time expired)