Senate debates

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Documents

Attorney-General's Department; Order for the Production of Documents

4:11 pm

Photo of Wendy AskewWendy Askew (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

On behalf of Senator Dean Smith I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 578 standing in his name for today relating to an order for the production of documents.

Leave granted.

I amend the motion in the terms circulated in the chamber. At the request of Senator Dean Smith, I move the motion as amended:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Attorney-General, by no later than midday on 30 August 2024, all written or digital correspondence, briefing notes, file notes, meeting notes, meeting agendas or minutes, or other records of interaction since 1 January 2024 between:

(a) the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Attorney-General;

(b) the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury;

(c) the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission;

(d) the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and the Attorney-General; and

(e) the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury; and

(f) the Attorney-General and the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury;

in relation to the undertaking and subsequent ending of an investigation by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner into the charity telemarketer Pareto Phone's data breach, in which the information of up to 50,000 donors from more than 70 charities was leaked.

Question agreed to.