Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Chandler for the supplementary question. We always take the advice of our security agencies on these matters. As you'd know, they go through a process in relation to this. I believe it also involves the joint standing committee on intelligence and security to some degree—or consultation. But that is the position the government takes. We take the objective of keeping Australians safe very seriously. We listen to our security agencies. We take their advice and, when we get that advice, we act on it. I would expect that that would be the way that you would have operated in government as well.