Australian citizens, regardless of their location are obliged to comply with these requests.
Extra-territorial law application is very complex. KP is one of the few places where you can routinely expect to be prosecuted in Australia for breaches overseas. or FGM. Or, more recently the war in Syria but bear with me: do you not also recognize that there is a huge reluctance to try and enforce the law in that last regard? because it turns out simply being somewhere is not neccessarily a good basis to declare you broke the law, noting that few if any of the people seeking to come home took up arms, and specifically took up arms against Australia or her allies.
They also have to serve the request on you. Simply issuing it doesn't make it binding surely? You have to be formally notified.
Lastly, since you can reveal it to your lawyer, I would argue that it implies they believe it could be mis-applied, or you can have a case in law to contest its applicability.
And, included in the notice begs the question: do we have any indication aside from hypothetically speaking, that a TAR/TAN/TCN has or can be drafted which doesn't include the employer and IPR holder in the notice?
Extra-territorial law application is very complex. KP is one of the few places where you can routinely expect to be prosecuted in Australia for breaches overseas. or FGM. Or, more recently the war in Syria but bear with me: do you not also recognize that there is a huge reluctance to try and enforce the law in that last regard? because it turns out simply being somewhere is not neccessarily a good basis to declare you broke the law, noting that few if any of the people seeking to come home took up arms, and specifically took up arms against Australia or her allies.
They also have to serve the request on you. Simply issuing it doesn't make it binding surely? You have to be formally notified.
Lastly, since you can reveal it to your lawyer, I would argue that it implies they believe it could be mis-applied, or you can have a case in law to contest its applicability.
And, included in the notice begs the question: do we have any indication aside from hypothetically speaking, that a TAR/TAN/TCN has or can be drafted which doesn't include the employer and IPR holder in the notice?