Senator HOGG (12:38 PM) —As Senator Ludwig is not here, this is an honour bestowed upon me which I did not expect. Undoubtedly Senator Ludwig will be here in a couple of minutes. The Tele-communications (Interception) Amend-ment Bill 2004 is of course a bill which I understand.

Senator HOGG —Please do not take any points of order on me at this stage. The bill will look into warrants for additional serious offences, extend the protections under the act in relation to text and image based communications, facilitate the recording of calls to publicly listed ASIO numbers and clarify the application of the act to have delayed access message services. As I understand the bill, it takes up new forms of technology that have not otherwise been available to date and it extends the legislation covering, as I say, different forms of technology. Now that Sen-a--tor Ludwig has arrived, that great speech will go down in the annals of Senate history. I thank Acting Deputy President Lightfoot and the Senate for their indulgence.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT (Senator Lightfoot)—The Deputy President is more than welcome.