Senator ELLISON (Minister for Justice and Customs) (12:27 PM) —For the record, the government opposes this amendment by the Democrats. I point out that the NCA operates within a system governed by judicial authorisation of warrants, extensive administrative law, the oversight of the parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority and the proposed Ombudsman complaints regime. So I would submit that putting forward a public interest monitor is really not needed—the government does not see that there is a necessity for it. Setting up a public interest monitor scheme in every state and territory would be costly and its benefit is questionable. Further, a parliamentary interest monitor was not recommended by the parliamentary Joint Committee on the NCA in its report on this bill. For those reasons, the government will not be supporting this amendment.

Amendment not agreed to.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN (Senator Crowley)—The question is that part 15 of schedule 1 and schedule 4 stand as printed.