Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question whilst clearly rejecting the premise of it and the number for it. As at 27 May COVIDSafe had 7.4 million registrations. With the addition of the Herald protocol, it now makes it the most effective contact-tracing app of its kind in the world. The app was designed to work in concert with states' and territories' contact tracing and to be used accordingly for that. For example, in the current Victorian outbreak, the app was accessed by Victorian officials on Saturday 29 May to gain a number of uploads. So it's being used right now by the Victorian government as part of their response. As we've made the point previously—

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