Senate debates

Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Bills

Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025; In Committee

11:39 am

Photo of Anthony ChisholmAnthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

We believe that it is necessary to progress this bill urgently. It's necessary to address the technical issues that are preventing agencies from exercising existing powers in the manner that the parliament intended, required to support prosecutors and agencies to comply with disclosure obligations and to support a fair trial, and required to finalise machinery-of-government changes following the making of a new administrative arrangements order on 13 May 2025.

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