Thank you so much Les. I have been missing in action, so apologies.
I have started an etherpad for our submission, which people can add to. I propose that we finalise it tomorrow at the meeting and send it off to meet the submission deadline.
Please add stuff, rather than editing or removing other people's stuff so that we can edit it all together tomorrow. I had a chat to Les and he was very helpful in pointing out that it does not have to be a very detailed or even well-thought out (after all, the government has not fully thought it through,) we just have to register our opposition.
The etherpad is at https://etherpad.net/p/Acces_Assistance_ands_Bill
Regards,
Tatiana
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 11:16:56 pm AEDT, Les Kitchen wrote:
Hi fellow FSM-ites,
I recently found out by accident, listening to Geraldine Doogue
(spelling?) on ABC Radio National, that the deadline for public
submissions to the review of the Assistance and Access Act is
this coming Friday, 22nd February, only a few days away.
I knew that the review was coming, but I wasn't expecting it so
soon, and I must say it caught me by surprise.
So if we want to do a joint submission as FSM, then we really
have to get moving on it pretty quickly. I was talking to
Tatiana over the weekend, and she suggested we could work on
this at our FSM meeting on Thursday. Even so, we'd need to do a
fair bit of preparation beforehand.
The current government webpage for making submissions (and some
information) is:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_...
There you can also look at submissions that have already been
made. That would be useful to see what people are saying.
Not to be confused with this is the old webpage for the previous
review from last year:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_...
But similarly that provides access to the public submissions
that were made to that earlier review, which also might be worth
reading if you have the time. (I made a submission to that
review, and got an emailed acknowledgement for it. But
strangely I can't find it on the list. I don't know what
happened there, and right now I don't have the time to track
that down.)
One complication is that I'm away in NSW at the moment. My Dad,
who's 90, had a fall week before last. Luckily no broken bones,
but concussion and bruising. He's been discharged from hospital
to return home. But it's been pretty disruptive, and I need to
stay with him for a bit while he recuperates. That puts limits
on how much I can contribute to our submission this time.
I'll try to do as much as I can, but I'll have to leave it to
the rest of you to move this along in time.
I guess that's about all for now.
— Smiles, Les.
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