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</head><body><p>Hi Russel,<br></p><p><br></p><p>It took a while but they ended up, i assume, all of them.<br></p><p><a href="https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018">https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018</a></p><p><br></p><p>And your right, they overwhelmingly negative. It also concerned me that they went ahead with the legislation a bit over two weeks after the closing date. That suggested to me that they wern't going to take the submissions seriously anyway.<br></p><p>So, I contacted my representatives both state, and federal pointing out how due consideration could not have been given to all the submissions in such a short time frame.<br></p><p><br></p><p>Mark<br></p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite"><p>On 05 November 2018 at 16:00 Russell Stuart via linux-aus <linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au> wrote:<br><br><br>On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 15:23 +1100, Mark Phillips via linux-aus wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>PPS. I am also a bit worried that LA as a body didn't submit anything<br>either. So next time something like this comes up, I'll be asking<br>for contributions from both OSIA and LA.</p></blockquote><p>As it happens LA did put it's signature on a submission. Should the<br>government ever publish the submissions you will see it there. I also<br>submitted a personal view point.<br><br>I suspect the submissions received where were overwhelming negative,<br>and the reason they aren't published is doing so would hinder the<br>governments agenda, which is to get the bill through the senate.<br><br>If those guesses are true additional submissions aren't going to help. <br>The citizens and civil society have made their position very clear to<br>their government.<br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-aus mailing list<br>linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au<br>http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus<br><br>To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to<br>linux-aus-unsubscribe@lists.linux.org.au</p></blockquote><p>> linux-aus-unsubscribe@lists.linux.org.au</p></body></html>