LAW, GOVERNMENT AND POLICY.

Criminal Law
CCJ 13 Law, Government & Justice
Student’s Name
1/30/2019

LAW, GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 1
Contents
Question 1........................................................................................................................................2
Question 2........................................................................................................................................2
Question 3........................................................................................................................................2
Question 4........................................................................................................................................3
Question 5........................................................................................................................................3
Question 6........................................................................................................................................4
Question 7........................................................................................................................................5
Question 8........................................................................................................................................6
Question 9........................................................................................................................................7
Question 10......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

LAW, GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 2
Question 1
The bill introduced by Abbott government in the year 2014, which established a
mandatory metadata retention regime was Telecommunications (Interception and Access)
Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015. By the introduction of this bill, amendments have been
made in Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.
Question 2
Both of the houses of parliament i.e. house of representative as well as Senate have
approved the said bill as on 26 March 2015. Further, the bill has received royal assent as on 13
April 2015.
Question 3

LAW, GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 3
Being on the position of Communication Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has introduced the
bill to the house of representative in the year 2014 (Knott, 2014). He has been the leader of the
Liberal party twice. He submitted his resignation from Cabinet in the year 2015 and afterward
has been elected as 29th Prime Minister of Australia. In his professional career, he has been on
various positions such as Cabinet Minister, Leader of the opposition, Shadow Minister, Minister
of communications and so on. In addition to being a politician, he is also Barrister and a
businessperson. In the year 2018, he has resigned from the post of the post of Australian Prime
Minister. At present he is living in Sydney with his four grandchildren (Malcolmturnbull.com.au,
2019).
Question 4
The lead reason behind the development and introduction of this bill was to ensure the
national security. In the reasoning, Communication Minister Malcolm Turnbull stated that access
to metadata has a significant role in nearly every cybersecurity, counter-espionage, organized
crime investigation, and counter-terrorism activity. He further stated that because of the lack of
access to metadata, many criminal investigations have been hampered in the past. In conjunction
with this, the government stated that the subjective law would prevent the illegal downloading of
music and movies and would make it easy to recognize suspected criminals. Andrew Colvin,
Australian Federal Police Commissioner said in a press conference that the presented scheme
would help to prevent the incidents of online copyright infringement and therefore the bill is
required to pass (Bbc.com, 2014).