'too short'
The Opposition says the inquiry effectively gives senators just one day to examine the bills.
Labor's homeland security spokesman, Arch Bevis, says the inquiry will be unable to scrutinise whether the legislation provides a balance between security and civil rights.
"You don't get that considered, balanced outcome by rushing legislation through the Parliament," he said.
The Democrats deputy leader, Andrew Bartlett, says the Government is abusing its control of the Senate to establish a farcical inquiry into laws that have a significant impact.
Senator Bartlett says it is outrageous that such an important piece of legislation is being pushed through Parliament with such little scrutiny.
"What the Government has offered us is a one week inquiry into anti-terrorism legislation or no inquiry at all," he said.
Labor and the Australian Democrats believe the inquiry will be unable to properly examine the anti-terror legislation.
"From the Democrats point of view, that is an absolute disgrace. It is an unprecedented abuse of basic parliamentary procedure."
Mr Bevis says the Government should reconsider its position when Parliament resumes in two weeks.
"We will again offer to the Government a practical solution to deal with this legislation, to enable the Senate to conduct a proper inquiry and give about two weeks after that, to consider that Senate report," he said.
Senator Bartlett says Coalition senators need to pressure the Government into extending the length of time they will have to examine the bills.
"Our immediate concern is to pressure each and every one of the National and Liberal Party senators to ensure that at least we get a minor opportunity for some sort of vaguely credible inquiry into the anti-terrorism legislation," he said.
But the Special Minister of State, Eric Abetz, says the Government had allowed for a longer inquiry but was stymied by the Opposition.
"They should be looking into themselves as to why they moved an amendment, knowing in doing so they would be deferring this matter," he said.
The Government wants to pass the new anti-terrorism laws by Christmas.
By Dateline and I Told You So posted 14 October 05
INDONESIAN police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid has said.
In an interview with SBS's Dateline program, on the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid says he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian authorities and terrorist groups.
While he believed terrorists were involved in planting one of the Kuta night club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali's Sari
Club, had been organised by authorities.
Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "Maybe the police ... or the armed forces."
"The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces, not from the fundamentalist people," he says.
The program also claims a key figure behind the formation of terror group Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy.
Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now a researcher and writer, told Dateline Indonesian authorities had a hand in many terror groups.
"There is not a single Islamic group either in the movement or the political groups that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence," he said.
He says Hasbi was a secret agent for Indonesia's military intelligence while at the same time a key player in creating JI.
Documents cited by SBS showed the Indonesian chief of military intelligence in 1990 authorised Hasbi to undertake a "special job".
A 1995 internal memo from the military intelligence headquarters in Jakarta included a request to use "Brother Fauzi Hasbi" to spy on Acehnese separatists in Indonesia, Malaysia and Sweden.
And a 2002 document assigned Hasbi the job of special agent for BIN, the Indonesian national intelligence agency.
Security analyst John Mempi told SBS that Hasbi, who was also known as Abu Jihad, had played a key role in JI in its early years.
"The first Jemaah Islamiah congress in Bogor was facilitated by Abu Jihad, after Abu Bakar Bashir returned from Malaysia," Mr Mempi said.
"We can see that Abu Jihad played an important role. He was later found to be an intelligence agent. So an intelligence agent has been facilitating the radical Islamic movement."
Hasbi was disembowelled in a mysterious murder in 2003 after he was exposed as a military agent and his son Lamkaruna Putra died in a plane crash last month.
Another convicted terrorist, Timsar Zubil, who set off three bombs in Sumatra in 1978, told the program intelligence agents had given his group a provocative name - Komando Jihad - and encouraged members to commit illegal acts.
"We may have deliberately been allowed to grow," he said.
Abduh also told the program his terrorist organisation, the Imron Movement, was incited to a range of violent action in the 1980s when the Indonesian military told the group that the assassination of several Muslim clerics was imminent.
Another terrorism expert, George Aditjondro, said a bombing in May this year that killed 23 people in the Christian village of Tentena, in central Sulawesi, had been organised by senior military and police officers.
"This is a strategy of depopulating an area and when an area has been depopulated - both becoming refugees or becoming paramilitary fighters - then that is the time when they can invest their money in major resource exploitation there," he said.
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