The Abbott government is facing opposition from backbenchers concerned that the Coalition’s proposed toughening of national security legislation will diminish the liberty and privacy of law-abiding Australians.The attorney general, George Brandis, has already had to quell one burst of internal dissent when he unveiled the first tranche of national security changes during the last parliamentary sitting fortnight.
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