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Liberal lawmaker Maria Kovacic was unable to answer questions about who would be targeted by the Coalition’s new laws designed to criminalize the actions of defenders who help people linked to terrorism return to the country.
The proposed laws mark the first move by Liberal leader Angus Taylor to “shut the door on people who don’t share our values”: a promise he made when he took the Liberal leadership this month as polls showed Coalition voters shifting to One Nation.
Kovacic was asked on Sky News earlier this morning who the proposed laws would seek to prosecute.
“The details of this will be there in due course,” he said.
Pressed for the second time on who the law would apply to, Kovacic gave up again.
“As I said before, I think the details of this will emerge.”
Deputy Secretary of State Matt Thistlethwaite, who described the offer as a political demonstration, also sided with Kovacic.
“I think… Maria has shown that this is a trick. She can’t even give details of who was caught under this law,” he said.
“How can this situation be evaluated by the parliament without knowing how the details will work?”
