[AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

[Paul Wilkins]

Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access)
Act 2018 <https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00148>

Assented to 8 December 2018

It's very much active law.

Includes 173 Government amendments moved in the Reps.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 17:26, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
wrote:

> This.
>
> The Bill was passed on Thursday, with the coalition's 173-odd amendments
> created as a result of the PJCIS report agreed to.
>
> It achieved Royal Assent on 8th Dec (Saturday!), and is now law, and the
> agencies can be commencing issuing TARs, TANs and TCNs to us all his week.
>
> This is described
> https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6195
>
> The actual text as passed currently is at
> https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6195_aspassed/toc_pdf/18204b01.pdf
>
> There were an additional 6 amendments from Labor, to fix what they saw as
> shortcomings in the other amendments, these are the extra further
> amendments that the ALP think the LNP will allow them to move in the House
> of Reps in February next year, and continue to review in the PJCIS next
> year.
>
> P.
>
>
> On 11/12/2018 4:07 pm, Chris Ford wrote:
>
> > The amendments were not passed.  Labor decided it was too hard to work
> through them, so they just approved it without the amendments.
>
>
>
> 173 Government amendments were moved and passed in the lower house.
>
>
>
> The Opposition said they did not believe the amendments fully reflected
> the PJCIS interim report and that they would seek to amend the bill in the
> Senate. However, when push came to shove they did not move the amendments
> in the Senate. The Greens tried to move them instead, but the ALP voted
> against their own amendments.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Ford
>
> Chief Technology Officer
>
>
>
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