What's the point? Why do they waste my time and theirs with crap like this? It's no better than the auto-response I got to the original email.
Regards, K. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: "Noveska, Radmila (M. Kelly, MP)" <[email protected]> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Please stop the Assistance and Access Bill Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 03:11:08 +0000 Dear Mr Auer Thank you for your email to Dr Kelly regarding the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill. Dr Kelly has acknowledged your email and has asked me to respond on his behalf. Labor has spent five years responsibly improving national security legislation to make Australians safer, and we have done the same thing this week. The government have made important concessions on its earlier positions on the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill. It appears the government will agree to proposals by Labor that will ensure there is better oversight and limitation of the powers in this bill, and better safeguards against potential unintended consequences. These are still subject to agreement by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, and further details will be contained in its report on the bill. The changes include limiting the application of the powers in this bill to only serious offences, properly defining key terms in the bill, and requiring a “double-lock” authorisation process for Technical Capability Notices. Importantly, the PJCIS will continue its scrutiny of the bill into 2019, allowing for outstanding concerns to be worked on and further amendments considered in the new year if necessary. Following the extraordinary interference with this committee by the Minister for Home Affairs and Prime Minister, Labor welcomes the constructive negotiations conducted with the Attorney-General over the past two days. Dr Kelly and Labor are very clear – this bill is far from perfect and there are likely to be significant outstanding issues. But this compromise will deliver security and enforcement agencies the powers they say they need over the Christmas period, and ensure adequate oversight and safeguards to prevent unintended consequences while ongoing work continues – just as Labor proposed. Labor has issued a call to the government – the trashing of bipartisan process and politicisation of national security that has occurred over the past month must never happen again. There is nothing more important than keeping Australians safe – the government must remember that. Thank you again for writing to Dr Kelly on this important issue and if there is any federal matter Dr Kelly can assist you with, please do not hesitate to contact our office. Kind regards, Radmila Noveska Office of The Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM MP Federal Member for Eden-Monaro Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence Industry and Support t: 02 6284 2442 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
