Bill
National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014
passed, as at 2014-10-02. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-09-23
- second reading — 2014-09-24
- second reading — 2014-09-24
- committee — 2014-09-24
- committee — 2014-09-25
- third reading — 2014-09-25
- introduced — 2014-09-30
- second reading — 2014-10-01
- second reading — 2014-10-01
- second reading — 2014-10-01
- committee — 2014-10-01
- third reading — 2014-10-01
- passed — 2014-10-01
- royal assent — 2014-10-02
Divisions
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - Second Reading - Independent oversight of Australia's intelligence services — 2014-09-24, Senate: negative, ayes 15, noes 41
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - in Committee - End debate on whether to limit ASIO's access to devices — 2014-09-25, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 33
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - In Committee - Limit number of devices ASIO can access — 2014-09-25, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 52
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - in Committee - Limit access to computers to extent necessary — 2014-09-25, Senate: negative, ayes 13, noes 44
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - in Committee - Remove secrecy provisions — 2014-09-25, Senate: negative, ayes 13, noes 36
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - in Committee - Against increase in penalty for unauthorised disclosure — 2014-09-25, Senate: negative, ayes 10, noes 45
- National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2014-09-25, Senate: affirmative, ayes 44, noes 13
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-07-16.
This bill would update and strengthen the rules governing Australia's intelligence agencies, mainly the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
It would put into effect the government's response to a parliamentary committee's 22 recommendations and also adopt seven further measures suggested in a later inquiry, which mostly involve technical changes to improve oversight, clarify legal fault elements, and narrow some exceptions to offences about leaking sensitive information.
The bill would enhance intelligence agency capabilities in seven areas, including updating ASIO's employment rules, overhauling its warrant-based collection powers, boosting its ability to run covert operations with safeguards, improving information sharing, protecting intelligence-related information and the identities of personnel, and renaming some Defence agencies.
- The bill would modernise ASIO's employment framework.
- It would streamline ASIO's warrant-based intelligence collection powers.
- It would strengthen ASIO's capacity for covert operations, with oversight.
- It would clarify and improve rules for ASIO's cooperation and information sharing.
- It would enhance capabilities of agencies covered by the IS Act.
- It would improve protection of intelligence information and personnel identities, and rename some Defence agencies.
The Australian Intelligence Community, particularly ASIO, and Defence agencies.
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