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Australian Border Force Amendment (Protected Information) Bill 2017; Consideration in Detail

Monday, 11 September 2017 House of Representatives

Shayne Neumann

Shayne Neumann Blair, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs

6:01 pm

We thank the government for this amendment. We think this is a sensible amendment. We do think the minister should be accountable to both houses of parliament. It's not the sort of information which we think a secretary of department or any public servant should be dealing with, no matter how honest, full of integrity and capable they are. This is something an elected person, a minister of the crown, should be dealing with and we thank the government for the amendment.

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