What are ASIO’s powers in detaining and questioning terror suspects? Does it need more to be effective?
- Associate Professor, Law School, The University of Western Australia
A post-sentence regime for convicted terrorists will only keep Australians safe if an accurate assessment of risk is possible.
Rosie Anne Fulton, a young Northern Territory Indigenous woman with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, highlights how the system is failing.
Detaining persons convicted of terrorist offences for lengthy periods after they have served their time could risk radicalising a section of the community who see the measure as unjust.
Preventive measures such as control orders should not be extended in the absence of evidence for their need or without safeguards.
The bill does not adequately balance the right of someone subjected to a control order to a fair trial and to know the case against them.
A control order is only useful where the police have sufficient intelligence about a person’s activity to apply for an order.
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