Labor MPs urge their party to take a more rigorous and strident approach to national security laws in the wake of this week's AFP raids.
and decrying the level of scrutiny his officers had been subjected to.
Veteran Labor senator Kim Carr said he believed stronger protections were needed but laid the blame for this week's events on the Coalition's"politicisation" of security and intelligence agencies. "This is a Government which has only been too happy to use the issues around immigration, boats, national security as a political weapon," he told the ABC's Campaign Trail.
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