Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025

Mr WALLACE (Fisher) (16:11): On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's advisory report on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order 39(e). Mr WALLACE: by leave—The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2025 proposes a single change to the ASIO Act: extend the operation of the ASIO compulsory questioning warrant framework for a further 18 months, from September 2025 to March 2027.

While bill No. 1 proposes only a time extension, the concurrently introduced ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025 seeks to make the compulsory questioning framework a permanent part of ASIO's intelligence-gathering powers and other, more comprehensive reforms. The PJCIS has already adopted an inquiry in relation to bill No. 2. The extension of sunsetting proposed in bill No. 1 would allow the committee to complete an in-depth review of ASIO's compulsory questioning powers that it commenced in the previous parliament, drawing on evidence to that review and inviting new evidence to the bill No. 2 inquiry.

The committee looks forward to completing a full inquiry into the existing powers and proposed amendments in bill No. 2 and reporting to parliament in due course. Bill No. 1 has already passed the House with bipartisan support and is now before the Senate. The committee recommends that the bill be passed.

I commend the report to the House.