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The attorney general, Christian Porter, has confirmed the “fundamental resolution” with Labor over the encryption bill and described it as a “massive win for the Australian people” that will allow agencies to break encryption to police serious crimes.

Porter said that Labor’s previous position would have meant state police would not have access to the powers over summer, and agencies could only use them for two categories of offence (terrorism, child sex offences). Passage of such an interim bill would have been “substantially ineffective”, he said.

Some further details of the deal:

The number of agencies that have access to powers has been reduced, with state anti-corruption bodies removed

The threshold for serious offences is all terrorist and child sex offences and other offences with a sentence of more than 3 years in prison

There will be a review of the powers within the first 12 months by the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security

Porter was sanguine about the extra safeguards on technical capability notices, arguing they added to the oversight of the powers without slowing the process down.