Footnotes
[1] Bills Digest No. 111 2003-04
[2] Explanatory Memorandum, p.34
[3] Proposed subsection 108(1)(b)
[4] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 7-8.
[5] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 24.
[6] Ms Graham, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 8.
[7] Ms Graham, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 8.
[8] Australian
Securities and Investments Commission, Submission
13B, p. 2.
[9] Mr McDonald, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 41.
[10] As defined in the proposed amendment to section
5D – schedule 4, item 7 of the Bill.
[11] Mr McDonald, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 39.
[12] Prof. Williams, Committee Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 28 and 31.
[13] Australian Privacy Foundation, Submission 4, p. 5.
[14] Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Submission 8, p. 6.
[15] Ms Macaulay, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 16-18.
[16] Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Submission 13, p. 2.
[17] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 18.
[18] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 12.
[19] Australian Privacy Foundation, Submission 4, p. 5.
[20] Mr Inman, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 17.
[21] Australian
Securities and Investments Commission, Submission
13A, p. 1.
[22] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 10.
[23] Ms Hume, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 37.
[24] Proposed subsection 118(3)
[25] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 37.
[26] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 12.
[27] Bronitt, S. and Stellios, J., Telecommunications
interception in Australia: Recent trends and regulatory prospects, Telecommunications Policy 29 (2005), p.
886.
[28] NSW Council of Civil Liberties, 'Australian
phones 26 -– times more likely to be bugged than an American
phone', Media Release, 13 January
2006.
[29] Australian Privacy Foundation, Submission 4, p. 4.
[30] Mr McDonald, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 39.
[31] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, pp 16-17.
[32] Ms Graham, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 14.
[33] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, pp 13-14.
[34] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, pp 13-14.
[35] Proposed section 150(1)(b)
[36] Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Submission 6, p. 2.
[37] Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Submission 6, p. 2.
[38] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 42.
[39] Senator Payne, Committee Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 42.
[40] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 13.
[41] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 19.
[42] Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 10, p. 2.
[43] Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 10, p. 3.
[44] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 6.
[45] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 36.
[46] Proposed section 6AA
[47] Electronic Frontiers Australia, Submission 3, p. 8.
[48] Telstra, Submission
20, p. 2
[49] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006.
[50] Australian Communications and Media Authority, Submission 18, p. 2.
[51] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 34.
[52] Content files can contain audio, video, data or
anything in digital formal, as well as real-time data, such as Voice over
Internet Protocol.
[53] Ruddock, P., Interception amendments achieve appropriate balance, Media Release,
16 February
2006.
[54] Explanatory Memorandum to the Telecommunications
(Interception) Amendment Bill 2006,
p. 1.
[55] Blunn, A S, AGPS, August 2005
[56] Blunn, p. 76.
[57] Blunn, p. 76.
[58] Blunn, p. 77.
[59] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 52.
[60] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 32.
[61] Committee Hansard,
15 March 2006, p. 44.
[62] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 46.
[63] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p.
[64] Blunn, p. 76.
[65] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 45.
[66] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 44.
[67] Ibid.
[68] Submission 1, p. 4.
[69] Submission 9, pp 2-3.
[70] Ibid.
[71] Submission
17, p. 6.
[72] Submission 2, p. 1.
[73] Submission
4, pp 8-9.
[74] Committee Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 2,
Submission 17, p. 6.
Article 17 ICCPR states:
1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful
interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and
reputation.
2. Everyone has the
right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
[75] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 56.
[76] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 22.
[77] Submission 17,
p. 9.
[78] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 50.
[79] Submission
2, p. 2.
[80] Ibid
[81] Ibid
[82] Blunn, p. 74.
[83] Submission
3, pp 28-29.
[84] Submission
2, p. 3.
[85] Blunn, p. 77.
[86] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 43.
[87] Mr
Gifford, Committee Hansard, 15 March
2006, p. 44.
[88] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006 p. 47.
[89] Submission
17, p. 9.
[90] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 59.
[91] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 47.
[92] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 29
[93] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p.40
[94] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 29.
[95] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 51.
[96] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 51.
[97] Ibid.
[98] Submission
1, p. 4
[99] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 6.
[100] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 30.
[101] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p.14
[102] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 9-10.
[103] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p.10
[104] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 29
[105] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 45.
[106] [1997] 839 FCA
[107] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 30.
[108] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 58.
[109] Submission 17, pp 3-4.
[110] Gillies, P., Law
of Evidence in Australia, p. 433.
[111] Section 4
[112] Submission
9, p. 2.
[113] Submission 9, pp 2-3.
[114] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 50-51.
[115] Explanatory Memorandum to the Telecommunications
(Interception) Amendment Bill 2006,
p. 32.
[116] Submission
3, p. 28.
[117] Submission
6, p. 2.
[118] Submission 17, p. 4
[119] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 9
[120] Submission
3, p. 28
[121] Submission
10, p. 1.
[122] Ibid.
[123] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 50.
[124] Submission
10, p. 4.
[125] Submission 10, p. 2
[126] Submission
17, p. 3.
[127] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 59-60
[128] Blunn, p. 2.
[129] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006 p. 22.
[130] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 34.
[131] Ibid.
[132] International Mobile Equipment Identifier
[133] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 55
[134] EFA, Submission
3, p. 28
[135] Blunn, p. 46.
[136] Mr Gifford, Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 54
[137] Federal Agent Lawler, Committee Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 54
[138] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 55
[139] Submission
6, p. 3.
[140] Ibid
[141] Ibid
[142] Blunn, p. 55.
[143] Ibid.
[144] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, pp 2-3.
[145] Committee
Hansard, 15 March 2006, p. 32.
[146] Submission
16, p. 3.
[147] Blunn, p. .
[148] House of
Representatives Hansard, 16 February 2006, pp 9-10.
[149] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 47.
[150] Explanatory Memorandum, p. 48.
[151] Committee Hansard, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, p.
39.
[152] Committee
Hansard, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, pp. 28 and 31.
[153] NSW Council for
Civil Liberties, ‘Australia phones 26-times more likely to be bugged than an
American phone’, media release, 13
January 2006.
[154] Office of the
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Submission
to the Commonwealth Parliament’s Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee on
its inquiry into the Provision of the Telecommunication (Interception) Bill
2004, 12 March 2004.
[155] Committee Hansard, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, p.
57.
[156] Committee Hansard, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, p.
57.
[157] Submission 2, p. 2.
[158] Submission 6, p. 3.
[159] Committee Hansard, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, p.
25.
[160] Submission 3, p. 29.
[161] Anthony Blunn AO ‘Report of the Review of the
Regulation of Access to Communications’ August 2005