STOP THE ASIO AMENDMENT BILL NO. 2
Labor and the Coalition are teaming up to pass laws that will make extraordinary detention powers, including for children, a permanent part of Australian law.
These powers allow ASIO to secretly detain people who have committed no crime, force them to answer questions under threat of imprisonment, and deny them the right to silence. They were first introduced as a temporary measure after the attacks on September 11, 2001.
More than two decades later, the major parties want them on the statute books forever.
In 2003, Anthony Albanese called laws like these "without precedent in Australia's post Second World War legal history."
He warned they could suppress dissent and detain innocent Australians. He was right then. Now he's Prime Minister and his Government wants to make these oppressive laws permanent.
The major parties made sure you couldn't have a say on this bill. They sent it to the most secretive committee in parliament, where the public cannot make submissions and they control every outcome.
Join us on this campaign to tell parliament these powers cannot be allowed to be made permanent.