Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I do not have the document to which the senator is referring. I do have one of the previous budget papers, and I think it is the same disclaimer. It states that the Commonwealth's preference is that this publication and any material sourced from it be attributed using the following wording: publication title, source and then the words 'the Commonwealth of Australia does not necessarily endorse the content of this publication.' In other words, the disclaimer refers to content created by third parties utilising and drawing from Common­wealth data. It is a standard disclaimer used at the front of most government publications. So it is the way in which the Commonwealth deals with the fact that it allows third parties to use Commonwealth material such as that in the Clean Energy Future guide but seeks to ensure that that disclaimer is included.