Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I'll give you a practical example of an issue that does raise security, and it's a very publicly known example. I raise this because you talked about the Australian Passports Act. We know that Witness K, for example, had an application for a passport. It might have been revoked on the advice of ASIS. That was fleshed out in estimates by former Senator Xenophon and others. That's a matter that did go to the AAT and did go to the special security division of the AAT and seems to have played out without any harm to national security, because the AAT's security division does deal with some of those issues on a regular basis. So in your consideration of this bill—and I take it you genuinely have a concern about national security—I wonder why Senator Wong's motion, which actively refers matters to that security division, would be problematic in the context of what you just said?