Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As Senators Carr and Cash have done, I will speak to all the amendments and then we can vote in sequence, if that is the will of the chamber. Before we do that, I have a two-part question to Minister Cash. In the privacy impact assessment that the minister tabled the other day on the bill, there were two recommendations relating to Australian Privacy Principles 3 and 5. The first one recommends that, to ensure staff compliance with the legislative requirements under the bill, appropriate training must be provided in addition to the new policy and procedural guidelines on the collection of personal identifiers under the bill. The second relates to administrative consequences of doing that—forms being reviewed and updated, as required, to ensure that Australian Privacy Principles 5 requirements are met. Then it goes through a number of points that are relevant to that. I am seeking from the minister some detail, firstly, as to whether she, on behalf of the government, agrees that those recommendations are sound and what the government will be doing to uphold those.