PARLIAMENT HAS APPROVED: Greater surveillance and search powers for ASIO including access to computers and inspection of postal and delivery service articles. Limited immunity from prosecution for intelligence officers engaged in special operations. New whistleblower offences for unauthorised dealings with an intelligence-related record, including copying, transcription, removal and retention. Maximum 10 year imprisonment for unauthorised communication and publication of intelligence-related information. Increased penalties for identifying intelligence officers. MEASURES PARLIAMENT HAS YET TO APPROVE: Require telcos to keep metadata information on calls and internet use. Reverses the onus of proof by deeming a person guilty of an offence if they travel to certain no-go locations overseas. Make it easier to ban organisations and jail their members based on their speech about terrorism. Make permanent three regimes from the so-called war on terror, legislated by parliament to automatically expire from July 2015. Enable ASIO to question and detain any person, including Australian citizens not suspected of terrorism. Allow the government to seek control orders to regulate every aspect of a persons life, including house arrest and/or wearing a tracking device. Allow preventative detention orders, which permit a person to be held without arrest or charge in secret detention for up to 14 days. WHAT IS A TERRORIST ACT? An act, or a threat to commit an act, that is done with the intention to coerce or influence the public or any government by intimidation to advance a political, religious or ideological cause, and the act causes: - death, serious harm or endangers a person; - serious damage to property; - a serious risk to the health or safety of the public, or; - seriously interferes with, disrupts or destroys critical infrastructure such as a telecommunications or electricity network. It does not cover engaging in advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action where a person does not have the intention to urge force or violence or cause harm to others WHAT IS A TERRORIST ACT OFFENCE? Commit a terrorist act; plan or prepare for a terrorist act; finance terrorism or a terrorist; provide or receive training connected with terrorist acts; possess things connected with terrorist acts, or; collect or make documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts. LISTED TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS: The government can list an organisation as a terrorist organisation if it advocates terrorism or engages in preparing, planning, assisting or fostering the doing of a terrorist act. It is an offence to: be a member; direct its activities; recruit; train or receive training; acquire funds for, from or to or; provide support to a terrorist organisation. (Source: Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department) -AAP Source and read more... skynews.au/news/politics/national/2014/10/01/terror-laws-pass-house-of-representatives.html#sthash.6p58ezn4.dpufskynews.au/news/politics/national/2014/10/01/terror-laws-pass-house-of-representatives.html
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