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Richardson made dozens of recommendations for how such a new Act should work, and 203 recommendations in total. It took an entire year for the government to respond, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on business, but eventually, in its formal response of December 2020, it agreed that such a reform was needed. Indeed, the government agreed, or agreed in principle, to the vast majority of Richardson's unclassified recommendations. "The central area for reform is a new electronic surveillance Act, which will be a new landmark in Australia's national intelligence legislation," the ...

The Australian coat of arms over parliament house, Canberra (John/Flickr) Published 11 Jan 2021 06:00   0 Comments   The Richardson review, released last month, amounts to the most significant review of Australia’s intelligence legislative framework since the Hope Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security in the 1970s. Back then, as David Irvine has noted, former judge Robert Hope laid out operating principles to ensure the intelligence community was properly managed and accountable. Dennis Richardson, a...