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Government to Put ASIO Above Public Interest

By Red Wolf

8 December 2003

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In Politics, Rights

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The ALP and Government combined in the last hours of parliamentary sitting for the year to ram through legislation to put ASIO above the public interest by giving it secret police powers. The legislation will make it an offence to discuss ASIO’s questioning of people, whether they are innocent or not, for two years after the interrogation occurs

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