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This appeared last week:Opportunity to ‘undo’ raft of surveillance powers passed by CoalitionDenham SadlerNational Affairs Editor2 June 2022The restructuring of the Home Affairs Department by the new Labor government and the ongoing review of surveillance powers offers an opportunity to “undo” many of the privacy-invasive digital-focused laws passed during the Coalition’s time in power, Deakin University senior lecturer Dr Monique Mann says.Labor this week unveiled its Administrative Arrangements Order, revealing that responsibility for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) from the Department of Home Affairs to the Attorney-General ’s Department.This comes five years after former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull moved the AFP into the new Home Affairs super-portfolio.The new order “transfers responsibility for criminal justice, law enforcement policy and operations, and protective services from the Home Affairs portfolio to the Attorney-General’s portfolio”.Clare O ’Neill has been appointed as the new Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security.The former Coalition government passed a number of digital surveillance laws during its recent time in government through Home Affairs, handing significant new powers to the AFP and other agencies. These included the mandatory metadata retention laws, encryption-busting powers and the Identify and Disrupt Act.While in Opposition, Labor offered support to all of these pieces of legislation, which the Coalition argued ...
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