Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

On the first question, I do not have that information. The draft has not yet been completed and I do not have a date for receiving it—so I am advised. In relation to the second question, my comments were actually in direct response to allegations that you have made on air at different times with me. Each time that they have been raised we have checked on the areas surrounding the allegations and found them to be erroneous on every occasion.

We will be in a position once the CCMS is in to be able to give a far more detailed breakdown of availability by age groups and, I believe, even smaller geographical areas than postcodes. That will help families; it will help the industry as well. At the moment I am going in and drilling in on a case-by-case basis when such information is provided by the public or allegations are made by the public or by Labor. The amount of work that went into propagating those maps which we provided to everyone for the six-month data is not a good use of time at the moment, given that in a very short time we are going to have the CCMS rolling out and that information will then be readily available on an ongoing basis and in a timely fashion. Remember that the information that I released earlier in the year in fact comprised the time lines from June to December last year. That was the best that was available. That was the only time it has ever been available, as you know, and time is now moving on, so we will be providing that information to the market as we get it once the CCMS is in.

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