[AusNOG] Assistance and Access Bill moves to PJCIS

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

April 2nd is budget day.

May 11 is *likely* Election Day (may 18th as a backup).

Sitting days are: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Sitting_Calendar/Sitting_calendar_2019-text_version

33 days is the *minimum* from issuing writs (usually on a Monday) to polling day which isn’t that far after budget day - so we’ll go into caretaker mode the moment the budget is passed.

I don’t expect anything to actually *happen* until the next government of which ever flavour is sworn in and starts moving on their legislative path - which could be well into the second half of this year.

I’m not smart enough to understand the “real issues” that the election will be “fought” over but I doubt it’s the #aabill and so I’m not even sure it’s worth saying much until after the election and the winning part(y|ies) start thinking about the next Parliament.

(I’ve attempted to discuss AABill with both my current Fed member and the other major Party’s candidate and neither were interested in engaging on it and the sitting member was, let’s say, very dismissive of my comments).

MMC


> On 29 Mar 2019, at 3:48 pm, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <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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