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

I again refer the senator to the fact that the disclaimer to which he is referring refers to material created by third parties, not to material created by the Commonwealth. The Com­mon­wealth allows third parties to use Commonwealth material, such as is provided in the Clean Energy Future guide. Under the Creative Commons licence, third parties can use Commonwealth material to produce their own material. There are two conditions associated with that. The first is attribution and the second is that third parties need to allow the Commonwealth to disclaim responsibility for material that the third party created from Commonwealth material. That is the reason for the disclaimer—that third-party material may have an opinion, factual assertion or position that is not supported by the Commonwealth. As I said previously, you will find that attribution statement in many official documents.