Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Another question, and it turns out there is not even anything in this legislation or these amendments to ensure that the data gets destroyed. Who knows where it is going to be kept and who knows how long they are going to keep it? There is nothing to say it is going to be destroyed. We are being asked to take this on faith and on face value with a few minutes' notice and to rush it through the parliament. What an appalling way to conduct such a significant piece of legislation! I ask, in another vein, when it comes to legal professional privilege, what protections will there be to ensure that a government agency does not get access to emails, or the content of emails or metadata that may be subject to legal professional privilege?

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