Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Privacy and Freedom of Information, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Justice, Senator Ludwig. Given the crazy loophole that still exists that allows criminals to change their name by deed poll and thereby erase any record of their criminal history, and given the evidence by Detective Superintendent Carver to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Australian Crime Commission—he said, 'Just moving states or even to countries like New Zealand and then changing your name by deed poll and coming back, you are almost like a new person'—what is the government doing to fix this dangerous situation so that criminals are not running around changing their names and walking away from their past crimes?