Original sentence: 3 were passed in the Senate in less than an hour, and with less than an hour's notice to the Parliament.In the Senate the government accepted most, but not all, of the Committee's amendments.On August 13, a bill enabling people to be arrested for "consorting" or associating with "terrorists" - whether at church (or mosque), community events or in the home - was passed by the Australian Parliament, following a voting deal between Prime Minister John Howard and the opposition Labor Party.The government's justification was that waiting for evidence to establish that suspects were involved in planning terrorist attacks made it too hard to arrest people, and they wanted to give law enforcement the power to arrest suspects to stop possible attacks.There have been over 30 counter-terrorism laws passed by the Australian Parliament since September 11, but the Anti-terrorism bill is considered by some to be so extreme that even Howard's own party members stridently attacked it as an assault on civil liberties, and questioned whether it were needed at all
Edited sentence: 3 were shunted through the Senate in less than an hour, and with less than an hour's notice to the Parliament.In the Senate the government accepted most, but not all, of the Committee's amdendments.On August 13, a bill which will enable people to be arrested for "consorting," or associating with "terrorists," whether at church (or mosque), community events, or even in the home, was passed by the Australian Parliament, following a backroom deal between Prime Minister John Howard, and the opposition Labor Party.The government's justification for it, was that waiting for evidence to establish that suspects were involved in planning terrorist attacks made it too hard to arrest people, and they wanted to make it easier to arrest people.There have been over 30 counter-terrorism laws pushed through the Australian Parliament since September 11, but this one is considered to be so extreme, that even Howard's own party members stridently attacked it as an assault on civil liberties, and questioned whether it were needed at all