Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Review of the listing of four terrorist organisations

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September 2005
Canberra

ISBN 0 642 78660 7 (print version)

Membership of the Committee
Terms of reference
List of recommendations

Membership of the Committee

Chair	Hon David Jull MP
Members	Mr Stewart McArthur MP	Senator Alan Ferguson
	Hon Duncan Kerr SC MP	Senator the Hon Robert Ray
	Mr Anthony Byrne MP	Senator Sandy Macdonald (until 6 July 2005)

Committee Secretariat

Secretary

Ms Margaret Swieringa

Research Officer

Dr Cathryn Ollif

Executive Assistant

Mrs Donna Quintus-Bosz

Terms of reference

This inquiry and report is conducted under the following powers:

Criminal Code Act 1995

102.1A Reviews by Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD

Review of listing regulation

If a regulation made after the commencement of this section specifies an organisation for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of terrorist organisation in section 102.1, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD may:

review the regulation as soon as possible after the making of the regulation; and
report the Committee’s comments and recommendations to each House of the Parliament before the end of the applicable disallowance period.

Dated 23 March 2005 and 7 April 2005

List of recommendations

3 The Listings

Recommendation 1

The Committee requests ASIO and the Attorney General to specifically address each of the six criteria referred to in paragraph 3.2 in all future statements of reasons particularly for new listings.

Recommendation 2

The Committee does not recommend disallowance of these regulations.