Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

(Queensland—) (): In response to your question, the issues around the powers of the Information Commissioner and the privacy legislation itself are quite complex, because you are talking about the relationships between the states, the territories and the Commonwealth in terms of investigations about transfer of information. I will take the question on notice to ensure I am correct, but my recollection is that there is a significant amount of information-sharing between the Commonwealth, through the Australian Federal Police, and the states and territories. They use CrimTrac, which is a body that has been set up to deal with the sharing of criminal information. However, in the earlier issue around identifying how we close loopholes— (Time expired)