Senator LUDLAM (12:06 PM) —That goes some way towards satisfying the intention of the Australian Greens amendment and it is appreciated that you have been able to clarify that for us. I will still obviously be proceeding with the amendment because, as you have observed, our proposal goes somewhat further. But at least there will be something there. I want to confirm that the kind of information that we are discussing here regarding communications includes information about an individual’s movements—their associations, their business activities and their financial status.

This information, even though it has no immediate nexus with the possible commission of an offence and it is under the national interest clause that we were discussing earlier—that kind of quite detailed intelligence about Australian citizens or others who live here or Australian citizens who live overseas—can now be transferred to other agencies whether or not they are inside the intelligence community and even though there is a complete absence of any allegation of an offence having been committed. Can I just confirm that that is the case?