The proposed new laws will be subject to a parliamentary inquiry’s decision before being passed, but the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is already onboard with the amendments. A report on October 17 will reveal the results. ‘Coercive questioning’, as the practice is called, may now be much easier to carry out, after ASIO welcomed the changes during a parliamentary inquiry following the introduction of the Foreign Fighters bill on September 23 – which deals with radicalized Muslim youths returning to Australia with the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks. A further softening of the highly debated ‘preventive detention’...
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