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Labor gives parliament only limited powers to examine unlawful spying after Timor-Leste scandal
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Australia’s parliament will be given only a limited ability to scrutinise unlawful and improper intelligence operations, prompting concerns it will not be able to meet a pre-election promise for an investigation of the 2004 Timor-Leste bugging scandal.
Legislation currently before the lower house would allow the PJCIS to request the IGIS investigate a wide range of matters, including specific intelligence operations like the 2004 bugging mission.
Bill Browne, the director of the Australia Institute’s democracy and accountability program, urged Labor to honour its commitment, describing parliamentary oversight of specific intelligence operations as vital.
“Australians expect intelligence agencies to be accountable to their democratically elected representatives in parliament, and the limit on PJCIS being able to review specific operations means that cannot happen,” he said.
“PJCIS is a trusted committee of democratically elected parliamentarians, and it is not only proper but vital that it be able to review intelligence agency behaviour, including the scandalous bugging of the Timor-Leste government by ASIS.”
A spokesperson for attorney general Mark Dreyfus said the government had ended the prosecution of Collaery and was now “building a new partnership with Timor-Leste based on trust, respect for its sovereignty and support for its economic prosperity”.
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