Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Senator Sinodinos. Australia has been globally condemned, including recently by the editorial of The New York Times, for our CSIRO cuts to Oceans and Atmosphere and our contribution to global climate science. It has also been revealed in recent Senate hearings that senior CSIRO executives have been deliberately using private email, rather than official CSIRO email addresses, to plan for and implement these cuts to climate science. Does the minister condone the use of private email, even though it is possibly in breach of the Archives Act and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act? Does the minister accept that this is a really bad look for an organisation expected to uphold the highest levels of public scrutiny?