Senate debates

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Committees

Privileges Committee; Reference

3:40 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

One Nation will support this motion. There are two primary issues here. The first is that we do not support the indiscriminate sharing of information that is private and should be confidential. We do, though, support the need for accountability and holding this government accountable. We understand that the tax commissioner has some issues and that the referral to the Privileges Committee is in the ideal position to resolve those issues. We need resolution in two forms. First of all, we want the Privileges Committee to hopefully consider what the taxation commissioner wants to do to protect the privacy of people so that their information is not released willy-nilly without context. Secondly, we want to make sure that the information is disclosed preferably in camera so that we can have full accountability on the government's JobKeeper scheme.

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