Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

This would only cover offences where the individual has been charged and is punishable by imprisonment for life or a period or a maximum period of at least seven years and the offence involves or will involves one of the following, which I have read out a number of times: engaging in a terrorist act, which has the life imprisonment part of the Criminal Code, but you would have had to have been charged with that offence. I'm not sure attending a protest and speaking at a protest—unless you have been charged with a serious terrorist offence, this section would not apply.