Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for his answer, and I do have a further supplementary question, Mr President. I refer to a report in The Guardian on 5 April 2017 that Cambridge Analytica met with 'representatives of the Liberal Party, government staff and parliamentarians, including the veterans' affairs minister' at an event organised by the Liberal Party secretariat. Can the minister assure the Senate that any improperly obtained private information about Australian Facebook users will not be exploited by Australian political parties?