Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The government agrees that the Australian Federal Police and the ACIC should fully utilise existing powers to combat cyber-enabled crime. However, those powers are increasingly ineffective against large-scale incidents of cyber-enabled crime. The government considers that legislative reform is necessary to enhance the ability of the AFP and the ACIC to discover and disrupt serious criminality online—in the first instance, through the powers in the bill, including data disruption warrants. Data disruption warrants were developed after careful consideration of the potential practical and principled issues in relation to disruption, as identified by the Richardson review.