14 Nov 2013 | Senator Scott Ludlam & Senator Peter Whish-Wilson

Delivering free trade deals are a top priority for the Abbott government and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) currently being negotiated is the biggest free trade deal in this country's history, impacting all walks of Australian life. The Australian Greens stated it is likely to also turn into this government's biggest headache.

The Government is running out of places to hide as the diplomatic fallout widens over Australia's uncritical subservience to US surveillance overreach.

When Parliament resumes next week the Greens will seek support from the Attorney General and Shadow Attorney General for a wide ranging public inquiry similar to that occurring in many countries including the US and some of our closest allies.

Senate Standing Committee on Economics -  Budget Estimates 4 - 6 June 2013

Senator LUDLAM asked:

Senator LUDLAM: You posted a press release on 22 March that had a bit of pickup, at least in the Fairfax and the online tech press on subsequent days, about the global capital wealth case, which is the one that was subject to be overblocking. When did you first hit 'send' on your fax machine on the global capital wealth instance-on what day?

Senate Standing Committee on Economics -  Budget Estimates 4 - 6 June 2013

Senator LUDLAM asked:

Senate Standing Committee on Economics - Budget Estimates 4 - 6 June 2013

Senator LUDLAM asked:

Senator LUDLAM: I would like to bring us back to where you started. Mr Kell, I missed the beginning of your opening statement. It is probably no surprise that I am going to take you back to that topic. I think part of what I might have missed was where you told us the number of times that ASIC has used section 313 of the Telecommunications Act to knock out a particular website.