Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The minister has referred in his remarks to the KPMG report on the smartcard. He indicated in the lead-up to the release of the report that certain sections would be marked ‘commercial-in-confidence’, which the opposition expected and does not have a major problem with. But when he released the report not only were certain sections marked ‘commercial-in-confidence’ others were marked ‘cabinet-in-confidence’. I know the minister will not want to go into detail, because if he did he would not have marked it ‘cabinet-in-confidence’, but I wonder whether he could inform the House in a general way why certain parts were marked ‘cabinet-in-confidence’, which is not what the opposition was expecting and certainly not I think what the public would expect for a publicly funded report.

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