Proactive Release - Review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 [pdf, 2.9 MB]
...oppose any proposed reforms. This might cause delays to the project or reduce the government’s social licence to reform the law. 25.2 The Royal Commission Report concluded that “there was an inappropriate concentration of counter-terrorism resources on the threat of Islamist extremist terrorism”. As this review forms part of the Government’s response to the Royal Commission, it has the potential to stigmatise and distress ethnic and faith-based communities. These communities...