Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend business of the Senate notice of motion No. 4, standing in my name for today, proposing a reference to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee, by omitting '13 September' and substituting '16 October'.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the following matter be referred to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee for inquiry and report by 16 October 2017:

Circumstances in which Australians' personal Medicare information has been compromised and made available for sale illegally on the 'dark web', including:

(a) any failures in security and data protection which allowed this breach to occur;

(b) any systemic security concerns with the Department of Human Services' (DHS) Health Professional Online Services (HPOS) system;

(c) the implications of this breach for the roll out of the opt-out My Health Record system;

(d) Australian government data protection practices as compared to international best practice;

(e) the response to this incident from government – both ministerial and departmental;

(f) the practices, procedures, and systems involved in collection, use, disclosure, storage, destruction, and de-identification of personal Medicare information;

(g) the practices, procedures, and systems used for protecting personal Medicare information from misuse, interference, and loss from unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure; and

(h) any related matters.