Bill
Intelligence and Security Legislation Amendment (Implementing Independent Intelligence Review) Bill 2020
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Jenny McAllister
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-26
- second reading — 2020-02-26
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-26.
This bill would put into practice the oversight and evaluation recommendations from the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review for Australia's intelligence community.
It would expand the parliamentary committee's oversight to cover ten agencies of the National Intelligence Community instead of the current six of the Australian Intelligence Community.
The explanatory memorandum does not specify the exact legislative changes or a start date for the bill.
- The bill would implement recommendations from the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review.
- It would strengthen oversight arrangements for the intelligence community.
- It would extend the jurisdiction of the parliamentary committee to all ten National Intelligence Community agencies.
- The bill would support the work of the committee with appropriate legislative arrangements.
The affected entities are the ten agencies of the National Intelligence Community, including the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, and others.
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