possible. stop there so we can have time for questions after my I’ll colleagues. MR GYLES: Thank you very much. Pass on. DR KLUGMAN: Dr Kristine Klugman, Civil Liberties . What do we’ll is to have Bill Rowlings speak to our submission and then I will add an addendum at the end after spoken. he’s MR GYLES: Thank you. DR KLUGMAN: Correction. go first. Additional submission. Civil I’ll Liberties asks you to recommend to the government and parliament that clauses relating to penalties for unauthorised disclosure of ASIO special operations be removed entirely for these reasons: it is not the duty of the media or the public to keep ASIO operations secret. That duty belongs to ASIO, partner agencies and officials and MPs to whom they disclose it’s operations. And it is the duty of the media to reveal any excesses or potential excesses by ASIO and its partners. Point 2, recommend to the government and parliament a complete rewriting to be undertaken of all anti-terror and associated laws passed since 11 September 2001. As the Crimes Act was consolidated over a century ago because criminal acts have grown like topsy, so now a there’s clear need to rewrite a hundred or so pieces of legislation passed since 2001 into a Crimes (Terrorism) Act. The extent to which the terror creep has spread into the laws of is indicated by legislation such as 35P of the ASIO Act and the recent legislation concerning data retention. There has been no consolidated overview of the myriad of acts passed since 2001 other than the reports of INSLM and the INSLM reports have been ignored by the government, even to the extent it is the express intention to abolish that government’s office. MR GYLES: It was. is the operative word. “Was” DR KLUGMAN: I trust them as far as I could throw them. wouldn’t MR ROWLINGS: It was abolished and only acting, I notice. it’s MR GYLES: Yes, - - - that’s
possible. I’ll stop there so we can have time for questions after my colleagues. MR GYLES: Thank you very much. Pass on. DR KLUGMAN: Dr Kristine Klugman, Civil Liberties . What we’ll do is to have Bill Rowlings speak to our submission and then I will add an addendum at the end after he’s spoken. MR GYLES: Thank you. DR KLUGMAN: Correction. I’ll go first. Additional submission. Civil Liberties asks you to recommend to the government and parliament that clauses relating to penalties for unauthorised disclosure of ASIO special operations be removed entirely for these reasons: it is not the duty of the media or the public to keep ASIO operations secret. That duty belongs to ASIO, it’s partner agencies and officials and MPs to whom they disclose operations. And it is the duty of the media to reveal any excesses or potential excesses by ASIO and its partners. Point 2, recommend to the government and parliament a complete rewriting to be undertaken of all anti-terror and associated laws passed since 11 September 2001. As the Crimes Act was consolidated over a century ago because criminal acts have grown like topsy, so there’s now a clear need to rewrite a hundred or so pieces of legislation passed since 2001 into a Crimes (Terrorism) Act. The extent to which the terror creep has spread into the laws of is indicated by legislation such as 35P of the ASIO Act and the recent legislation concerning data retention. There has been no consolidated overview of the myriad of acts passed since 2001 other than the reports of INSLM and the INSLM reports have been ignored by the government, even to the extent it is the government’s express intention to abolish that office. MR GYLES: It was. “Was” is the operative word. DR KLUGMAN: I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. MR ROWLINGS: It was abolished and it’s only acting, I notice. MR GYLES: Yes, that’s - - -
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