Australian spy agency Asio's proposed new powers 'overreach', legal expert says

Leading academics and a major Muslim advocacy group voice alarm over bill that would allow questioning of 14-year-olds

The Morrison government is facing pushback from leading academics and from a major Muslim advocacy group about new powers allowing the domestic spy agency to question people as young as 14.

The dean of law at the University of New South Wales, George Williams, said the government's proposed new law was a case of overreach" and agency powers kept being increased in what typically is a one-way street without any sense of what the endgame is".