House debates

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Questions without Notice

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3:32 pm

Photo of Alan TudgeAlan Tudge (Aston, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

she pretends that she is concerned about the private information of individuals. Yet on 50 occasions the Labor Party encouraged individuals to come forward, put their private information into the media, knowing—which she admitted—that they did not know whether those people owed debt or not. She admitted it herself.

We take the privacy of people's information very seriously. It is governed by the Privacy Act, which has very strict provisions. But there is also provision in the law to provide discrete pieces of information to correct the record on certain occasions, and on this instance, with clear legal advice from the— (Time expired)

Mr Pasin interjecting

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