Paul Scarr (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Multicultural Engagement) Share this | Hansard source

I would appreciate that because genuinely, in good faith, I say to you that I was absolutely gobsmacked when I heard about this issue of Services Australia staff having to redact hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents to prevent potential issues of family and domestic violence because of inappropriate disclosure that was introduced under the Administrative Review Tribunal Act. I was absolutely gobsmacked when that came to my attention. I think it should be of concern to all senators as to when the government became aware of that particular issue.

That then leads to the next question: why wasn't this matter brought forward earlier? Why wasn't this matter brought forward as a matter of priority so the public servants within Services Australia didn't have to continue to deal with this issue?