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Criminal Code Act (NT), Pt III Div 2. The provisions were modelled on the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1974 (UK).

They were: Terrorism Bill; Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2002; Criminal Code Amendment (Suppression of Terrorist Bombings) Bill 2002; Border Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2002; Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill 2002.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Consideration of Legislation Referred to the Committee: Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill 2002 et al, May 2002.

The section does, however, allow the person to contact the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security and the Ombudsman while in detention.

Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth), s.8.

Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD, An Advisory Report on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill 2002, May 2002 at vii. See also Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Consideration of Legislation Referred to the Committee: Provisions of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill 2002, June 2002.

‘Sir Humphrey Would Be Proud’, News Release, 27 August 2002. For the full text of the amendments, see Hansard , House of Representatives, 23 September 2002, pp.6784–91.

Kelly T. , ‘Court Reveals FBI Deceit’, Sun Herald, 25 August 2002.

See Hancock N. , Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill 2002, Bills Digest No 128 of 2001–02, 1 May 2002, pp.20–2.

See, for example, Alcorn G. , ‘Calls for Account of Failure to Connect the Dots’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2002; Eccleston R. , ‘Clues Aplenty, but FBI Failed to Connect Dots’, Weekend Australian, 18 May 2002; Eggen D. , ‘Revealed: FBI Told of Hijack Suspect a Month before Planes Hit’, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 January 2002.

In the financial year ending in June 2001, ‘more than 2150 warrants were issued for phone taps in Australia, but only 1490 in the United States’, Banham C. , ‘Rampant Phone Tapping puts US in the Shade’ Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2002; see Melham Daryl , MP, ‘More Telephone Taps in Australia than the United States’, Media Statement, 15 September 2002; and compare Williams Daryl Attorney General, ‘Interception an Effective Crime-Fighting Tool’, News Release, 16 September 2002.

Hansard , House of Representatives, 24 September 2002, pp.6844–47. See also for the debate on the Bill, Hansard, House of Representatives, 19 September 2002, pp. 6607–33, 6661–63; Hansard , House of Representatives, 23 September 2002, pp. 6762–93.

‘Government Fails Over ASIO Bill’, Media Statement, 27 August 2002.

Hansard Senate , 21 October 2002, pp.5392–93. For the debate, see Hansard Senate , 17 October 2002, pp.5279–5300; Hansard Senate , 21 October 2002, pp.5347–57. Details of the inquiry can be found at <www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/>.