Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister. In that context, you are therefore assuring us that we should be able to get an answer to questions like whether an exemption is repeatedly applied if the same circumstances are envisaged for each exemption. Clearly that wouldn't go necessarily to the security information behind that. We should be at liberty to know at least that the government is not relying on an exemption in order to continue to have untrained personnel doing screening. You would be able to be clear in an answer that each exemption is used on a unique and novel basis, so that we can be clear that the exemptions aren't being renewed again and again.