Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I can assure your departmental officers that I have no reason to believe they are anything other than consummate professionals who take their jobs very seriously. Just so that we can all understand what I meant when I said 'legal advice', I was specifically referring to formal legal advice obtained from either the Solicitor-General or his office or the Australian Government Solicitor or the office of the AGS. Those are the organisations to which I was referring when I said that I think we can take the answer as a no.

Attorney, thanks for your response on the previous question. Can I ask you now about any oversight powers that may exist for the Ombudsman in regard to any information sourced under this legislation. Will the Ombudsman have oversight powers as the Ombudsman does with metadata collected under the metadata creation and retention disclosure scheme?