Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I'll say again that Australian citizens who apply for a passport—absent the security assessments that I dealt with when Senator Duniam asked me a question—are entitled to a passport. You may not have been in Senate estimates, where we were asked this question multiple times. It was made clear that, for privacy and security reasons, we're not in a position to go to individuals. What I can say as a general proposition is that Australian citizens—absent those provisions of the passport that I was asked about before—are entitled to a passport.