Talk:Anthony Byrne (politician)

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Update needed - on sovereignty issues and anti-corruption drive
This subject has been involved in two serious matters during 2019-20. The first is through his leadership of the PJCIS in which Byrne seems to have helped push through at least three major pieces of legislation to inhibit CCP interference in Australia's institutions. The second regards the subjects own political party. Byrne appears to have quickened the downfall of a Labor leader now accused of branch stacking, a corrupt practice in Australian politics. I'm suggesting an expansion of this article to include these matters.

In particular, it would be good to draw on his advocacy for Australian sovereignty from First speech on Espionage and Foreign Interference where he describes "the strongly bipartisan nature of this committee" and the need to "safeguard the Australian people against foreign influence threats" especially as "great foreign powers have sought to influence democracies." Byrne has helped build "11 to 12 tranches of security and other legislation"

and Second speech on Espionage and Foreign Interference

Likewise, the MP is noteworthy for his strident language on both civil liberties and national sovereignty - "Our nation has a right to defend itself. It has a right to protect and defend its democratic structures, its way of life and the freedom of its people—all of its people, wherever they have come from, near or afar. When you come to this country and become a citizen, you are entitled to the full measure of protection that this country affords. This legislation must offer these protections to you, and, after the exhaustive processes undertaken by the PJCIS, it will."

Further, it would be good to document this person's extremely high view of democratic liberalism, "The perception of autocratic regimes about democracies like ours, the United Kingdom's and the United States's is that the openness of our societies creates weakness and that this weakness can be exploited. This is an act of historical folly that seems destined to be repeated unless common sense and a study of history prevail. Also this misconception could not be further from the truth. Our openness is our greatest strength. Our way of life and our expression of it are also our great strengths. It has come from centuries of struggle and sacrifice from many different nations and many different cultures. Its foundations were laid thousands of years ago by societies whose light still burns bright today and whose impact reverberates throughout our laws, our values, our art and our culture. We are the children and heirs of this foundation and tradition, and we must not squander this hard-won inheritance. Because even through this openness we can be slow to respond to threat, when that threat is revealed something ignites in our democracy: a thirst and an unquenchable desire to protect that democracy and our way of life, whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice, with the full measure of devotion."

Some of these elements belong in the Parliamentary service section, some belong in a section on views. The Little Platoon (talk) 21:31, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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