Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

In that context, given the secretary does have the ability to exempt screening officials from training, I'm sure the minister would agree it is appropriate—and it shouldn't go to the detail of the kind of national security matters that you're highlighting—that the public understands how long an exemption is applied and to whom it's been applied to and perhaps who exercised that exemption. For example, you could characterise whether each exemption has to apply to an individual, or it might be a whole class of people that carry that exemption over a particular period of time. So can you outline for the Senate the kind of information that we should reasonably be able to ask? For example, we would want to know that it's not the same exemption being applied over and over again.