Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. I understand the Attorney-General’s Department has ongoing consultation with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Obviously, my advice is the government would ensure that any proposal would be consistent with the Privacy Act and the government’s privacy reforms.

In answer to the second supplementary: I have made clear that it is the government’s view that any data retention regime would need to strike the correct balance between individual privacy, commercial imperatives and community expectations that unlawful behaviour is both investigated and prosecuted.