The confrontation clause is a crucial safeguard that needs to be enforced.
"So we have tried to put in place every institutional safeguard that is practicable".
"So no statutory underpinning but a safeguard that says politicians can't in future fiddle with this arrangement".
"The safeguard that is in the system, in part, involves the history of the system," he said.
Xenophon said oversight of compulsory examination orders was "an important safeguard that doesn't fetter the work of the ABCC".
Key controversial parts of the bill will remain, such as leaving out a safeguard that requires judges to sanction any reading of messages.
He writes: "At Blair's insistence, every traditional safeguard that might have led to a warning about any potential danger was excluded".
There is always someone who comes up with a shortcut to circumvent a safeguard that was designed to counteract an earlier shortcut.
A spokesman for Reprieve, which campaigns against rendition and the death penalty, said government amendments removed a key safeguard that would allow judges to balance questions of security against broader issues of justice.
An investigation by the state Office of the Child Advocate and the Child Fatality Review Panel found that the boy had been let down by every safeguard that was supposed to protect him.
For reasons that still remain a mystery, the city's election workers disabled those latches in 1964, taking away a built-in safeguard that advocates say would have prevented thousands of residents from losing their votes in every election.
