Intelligence committee deputy chair lashes at Home Affairs over metadata

Supplied video obtained February 28, 2020 of the Intelligence and Security committee sitting in Canberra questioning the Department of Home Affairs and the mandatory data retention regime. Deputy Chair, Anthony Byrne becomes annoyed and delivers a rebuke to the Home Affairs representative, Hamish Hansford who is testifying before the committee. "Your role is to make sure that the agencies, I haven't finished and you listen and I talk, this is the way this goes, and when I ask you questions you respond, that's what you do," Mr Byrne says. (AAP Video/Supplied/Parlview) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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