CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Background
1.1
On 24 March 2011, the Senate referred the provisions of the Intelligence
Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 (Bill) to the Senate Legal and
Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, for inquiry and report by 21 September 2011.
1.2
The Intelligence Services Bill makes amendments to the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, the Criminal Code Act 1995
and the Intelligence Services Act 2001, with the aim of improving the operation
of key provisions of that legislation.
Conduct of the inquiry
1.3
The committee advertised the inquiry in The Australian newspaper
on 30 March and 13 and 27 April 2011, and invited submissions by 6 May
2011. Details of the inquiry, the Bill and associated documents were placed on
the committee's website.
1.4
The committee received 13 submissions, which are listed at Appendix 1.
Submissions were placed on the committee's website for ease of access by the
public.
1.5
A public hearing was
held in Canberra on 16 June 2011. A list of witnesses who appeared at the
hearing is at Appendix 2, and copies of the Hansard transcript are
available through the internet at http://aph.gov.au/hansard.
Acknowledgement
1.6
The committee thanks organisations and individuals who made submissions
to this inquiry and gave evidence at the public hearing.
Note on references
1.7
Submission references in this report are to individual submissions as
received by the committee, not to a bound volume. References to the committee Hansard
are to the proof Hansard. Page numbers may vary between the proof
and the official Hansard transcripts.
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