The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has today tabled an advisory report on the Transport Security Amendment (Security of Australia’s Transport Sector) Bill 2024.
The report makes recommendations about proposed amendments to the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 (ATSA) and the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 (MTOFSA).
Committee Chair, Senator Raff Ciccone, said ‘It has been over twenty years since the ATSA and MTOFSA became law and in that time the threat environment has changed considerably. It is appropriate that the legislative framework governing transport security change along with it. The Committee’s advisory report makes a number of recommendations — recommendations that seek to improve the bill and make our aviation and maritime industries even safer than they are already’.
Further information on the inquiry, and the full report, can be obtained from the Committee’s website.
Media enquiries
PJCIS Chair Senator Raff Ciccone, via Giulio Di Giorgio
0422 622 760
giulio.digiorgio@aph.gov.au
For background information
Committee Secretariat, Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
02 6277 2360
pjcis@aph.gov.au
For more information about this Committee, you can visit its website. On the site, you can make a submission to an inquiry, read other submissions, and get details for upcoming public hearings. You can also track the Committee and receive email updates by clicking on the blue ‘Track Committee’ button in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
