Page 2801 - Week 08 - Thursday, 11 August 2016
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Amendment agreed to.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (4.56): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 3 and 4 in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR RATTENBURY: I move amendments Nos 3 and 4 in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 2853].
It is my understanding that these amendments are supported and that is a result of the government amendment that has just been passed. The government amendment has effectively covered the field in this regard and these clauses are now redundant.
Amendments agreed to.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Climate Change) (4.57): I move amendment No 61 circulated in my name which deals with law enforcement or public safety information [see schedule 2 at page 2854].
This amendment substitutes clause 1.19 to mirror the exemption for law enforcement or public safety in the Queensland act and strengthens protection for information obtained for the purposes of law enforcement investigations and public safety. In addition to the types of information already provided in clause 1.19, which includes information that could endanger a person’s life or result in a person being subject to a serious act of harassment or that could endanger the security of a building, structure or vehicle, clause 1.19 is amended to now include information disclosed that could prejudice the investigation of a contravention or possible contravention of the law in a particular case, prejudice the effectiveness of a lawful method or procedure for preventing, detecting, investigating or dealing with a contravention or possible contravention of the law, prejudice the maintenance or enforcement of a lawful method or procedure for protecting public safety, prejudice a system or procedure for the protection of persons, property or the environment or prejudice the wellbeing of a cultural or natural resource or the habitat of animals or plants.
Information is also protected if it consists of information given in the course of an investigation of a contravention or possible contravention of the law where the information was given under compulsion under an act that abrogated the privilege against self-incrimination. Lastly, information is protected if it was obtained, used or prepared for an investigation by an entity prescribed by regulation in the exercise of its function.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (4.59): I will be opposing this amendment. Other jurisdictions such as South Australia and New South Wales apply the public interest test to much of the information that would be excluded from the public interest test by this amendment. It is a not dissimilar observation to the one I made on the previous
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