House debates

Monday, 26 February 2007

Human Services (Enhanced Service Delivery) Bill 2007

Second Reading

7:45 pm

Photo of John MurphyJohn Murphy (Lowe, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Right on cue, Minister. Your singing brings back memories. In the article, published in the Age on 1 June 2006, the vice-chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation, Mr David Vaile, said:

It’s very easy to make outrageous claims about security and fraud crackdown, but (we have) only 1 to 2 per cent welfare fraud—lower than credit-card fraud. It’s beyond (the Government’s) return on investment ...

I am sure the member for Hotham would have said it is a disgrace.

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