Senate debates

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019; In Committee

10:24 am

Photo of Jenny McAllisterJenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) | Hansard source

Minister, I have been pursuing a line of questioning around the information available to funds. I do maintain that it is impractical for funds to individually write to members and seek information about occupations, not least because people's occupational profile changes with some regularity and it seems a rather clunky way to implement the government's intent. Did the government give consideration to allowing funds to access ATO occupational data? There are already arrangements for funds to interact with the ATO to obtain information about their members as part of SuperMatch, and I just wonder whether you gave any thought to ATO data being provided to allow funds to implement the arrangements set out in your amendment.

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