As MPs prepare for an early return to Canberra to consider Labor’s draft bill, the politics must not be allowed to hide the fact that it would be bad law
In the frenetic first few hours after the Bondi shooting, Sussan Ley was quick to issue a statement on the worst terror attack on Australian soil.
As the national security committee of cabinet met in Canberra and intelligence agencies and police scrambled to respond to the carnage on 14 December, Ley offered the Coalition’s “full and unconditional support” for the government’s response.