Parliament guillotined the ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2) through the Senate today, super-sizing ASIO's coercive questioning and detention powers, while media attention is fixed on the government's NDIS and gambling reform packages.
Disappointing to see the Bill passed.
Well done to South Australian Liberal Senator Andrew McLachlan for also opposing the Bill, along with One Nation, the Greens and Senator David Pocock.
The Bill has the support of the Labor and Coalition who are in lockstep on giving ASIO this unprecedented expansion of powers.
This is the largest expansion of secret interrogation and detention powers this country has seen in over 2 decades and the major parties are hoping nobody noticed until it is made into law.
You know a bill is a bad idea if the Government and Coalition want to restrict democratic debate to an hour despite mass opposition from the community and political resistance inside Parliament.
Under these laws you can be locked up and interrogated in this country without ever being charged or even suspected of a crime. That should terrify every Australian.
As young as a fourteen-year-old can be detained and questioned by ASIO with no lawyer and no court oversight and then when released they can't tell anyone.
If while you're being questioned you stay silent or refuse to answer any questions you can go to prison for five years. Tell someone it happened and you go to prison. That's the choice this Bill hands to an innocent person.
Labor and the Coalition are burying the bill they can't defend under the dirty NDIS and gambling headlines. Whatever it takes to keep the cameras pointed the other way.
When they write 'politically motivated violence' into this Bill, they are writing a blank cheque to target anyone who criticises this Government.
We have watched our governments use national security powers against people marching for freedom before. This Bill hands them the power to do it in secret, with no one able to challenge it in court.
Disappointing to see the Bill passed.
Well done to South Australian Liberal Senator Andrew McLachlan for also opposing the Bill, along with One Nation, the Greens and Senator David Pocock.
The Bill has the support of the Labor and Coalition who are in lockstep on giving ASIO this unprecedented expansion of powers.
This is the largest expansion of secret interrogation and detention powers this country has seen in over 2 decades and the major parties are hoping nobody noticed until it is made into law.
You know a bill is a bad idea if the Government and Coalition want to restrict democratic debate to an hour despite mass opposition from the community and political resistance inside Parliament.
Under these laws you can be locked up and interrogated in this country without ever being charged or even suspected of a crime. That should terrify every Australian.
As young as a fourteen-year-old can be detained and questioned by ASIO with no lawyer and no court oversight and then when released they can't tell anyone.
If while you're being questioned you stay silent or refuse to answer any questions you can go to prison for five years. Tell someone it happened and you go to prison. That's the choice this Bill hands to an innocent person.
Labor and the Coalition are burying the bill they can't defend under the dirty NDIS and gambling headlines. Whatever it takes to keep the cameras pointed the other way.
When they write 'politically motivated violence' into this Bill, they are writing a blank cheque to target anyone who criticises this Government.
We have watched our governments use national security powers against people marching for freedom before. This Bill hands them the power to do it in secret, with no one able to challenge it in court.
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