Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

There are seven or eight different ways of asking the same question so I guess we get the same answer, which is that our security agencies never stop collecting information, and that's exactly as it should be. When people first apply for a visa, the movement alert list represents the information that we already have. The different alerts that can then result in an ASIO referral—

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