[AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

[Paul Wilkins]

Crunch time is 3rd April, when the PJCIS will report back to Parliament. I
expect Labor recommending their same amendments plus whatever washes up
from the latest round of consultation. Then it's up to the Liberals to
either act in good faith, and pass the Labor amendments as per prior
agreement, or, play politics, refuse to pass the agreed amendments, and
scare up the issue. I'd like to think there would be serious political cost
for not honouring the agreement. Unfortunately, the Liberal hard right
Trumpists are the one's invested in the populist theatre of blowing up
public policy grounded in evidence.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins


On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 10:52, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
wrote:

> On 28/03/2019 5:29 pm, Peter Fern wrote:
> > On 28/3/19 12:33 pm, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> >> The silence on the Assistance and Access Act since it passed in
> December has been
> >> deafening. It was firmly understood, on representations by the Liberal
> Government,
> >> that the bill passed was passed as an expedient, yet now we have the
> third report
> >> from PJCIS due 3rd April, and yet another round of submissions from
> corporations
> >> large and small, industry luminaries and human rights and legal
> experts, all saying
> >> that basically we're where we were back in September 2018, when Dutton
> rather
> >> disingenuously reported to the House that:
> >>
> >> "The government has consulted extensively with industry and the public
> on these
> >> measures and has made amendments to reflect the feedback in the
> legislation now
> >> before the parliament."
> >>
> >> Yet no matter how many submissions are made to how many parliamentary
> committees,
> >> we now seem stuck with a deeply flawed Act, the Liberals are walking
> backwards on
> >> the Labor amendements, while the country's police forces now operate
> with sweeping
> >> interception powers well beyond what's necessary and proportional.
> >
> >
> > Because, of course we are - anyone who thought we'd be anywhere else
> today was
> > living in a fantasy land.  And you can thank Labor for this, on account
> of being
> > completely spineless weasels, almost as much as the Libs for ramrodding
> this
> > disgusting mess through in the first place.  Tech policy in this country
> is an
> > absolute joke.
>
> Looking forward to your submission to the PJCIS, and let us know how your
> meeting with
> your local federal MP goes when you explain all this in words of one
> syllable to her/him.
>
> This week's event was the commercial tech industry waking up to the huge
> economic
> impact, and the distrust and loss of business from international customers
> and
> prospects that will lead to Australian tech firms moving out of Australia,
> and not
> starting up in Australia in the first place. When companies like Senatas
> and Atlassian
> say they will need to move all their operations out of the country to
> avoid the
> suspicion and mistrust, and Microsoft recently that the #AABill is making
> them uneasy
> about storing customer data in Australia, the momentum is building that
> even the
> relevant Ministers can't ignore.
>
> Yes, it would have been great if the bill hadn't been passed back in
> December - but
> that egg has been scrambled, the exercise now is to get it modified or
> cancelled.
>
> There is a template letter to your local MP hosted at
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u64wadpyy97sw4f/AACTZ-grqUgUqFClXBmzPk99a?dl=0,
> put
> together by the InnovationAUS crew, to help make it easy to send a
> message. If they
> don't hear the message from the people - and trust me, they aren't reading
> AusNOG -
> they won't change.
>
> Paul.
>
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