Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Review of the re-listing of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the Brigades), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code Act 1995

On 27 August 2009, the Attorney-General, The Hon Robert McClelland MP, asked the Committee to inquire into and report on the re-listing of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the Brigades), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference by 3pm on Tuesday 6 October 2009. Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to pjcis@aph.gov.au or sent on disk or CD-ROM to the Committee Secretariat in Microsoft Word^® or Portable Document Format (PDF).

Submissions

Private hearings

Media releases

Report

The following information on Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the Brigades), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was provided to the Committee by the Attorney-General, The Hon Robert McClelland MP.

Information on Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the Brigades) (PDF 246KB)

Information on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (PDF 518KB)

Information on Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) (PDF 370KB)

Information on Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (PDF 260KB)