Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We might be going to challenge my technical capacity, but I appreciate your engineering experience being gentle with me, if you don't mind. The update process will operate, and does, in the way you would expect any app update to work: through messages on phones and through the government's messaging, and the states' and territories' messaging, about that.

Let me go through some of the points I have here, and we will see if they address the concerns that you have. Most definitely, let me be very clear in saying that the COVIDSafe app works. From its launch, the app has been collecting data about users' close contacts after they download and register in the app. So if a user is diagnosed with COVID-19 they may upload close-contact data to assist state and territory contact-tracing efforts.

There has been, as you have observed, some public discussion about whether COVIDSafe works on iOS devices. The government is assured that the app operates on these devices as intended. We are aware of the variability in the quality of bluetooth signals—

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