David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Having been at the hearing on Friday, I will let the Senate know what happened. Senator Ruston and I were asking for those numbers. If I can quote the department, they said:

I will take it on notice to be able to provide it for Monday.

The official also said, to Senator Ruston:

I can take it on notice and I can provide it to you with the usual caveats attached.

I'm interested if the government is claiming public interest immunity on this, or what's going on, given we had questions on notice and an undertaking from the department to provide this information—which it has—which we were told was easily accessible and would be provided with caveats, and now we have a government that simply will not provide the information.