Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Providing for a safe harbour would give entities a shield against any legal liability incurred as a result of a cybersecurity incident. We think that the Australian public rightly expects that entities should comply with their legal obligations and do what they can to proactively respond to cybersecurity incidents. Limited use will not exempt an organisation from complying with their existing legal and regulatory obligations. The limited-use provisions are not a safe harbour to shield business against legal liability but will instead operate to ensure information provided by industry during a cybersecurity incident can only be used by government agencies, including the Cyber Security Coordinator, for the purpose in which it was shared—that is, a permitted cybersecurity purpose.