QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:40): Let's be clear about one element of that question for people who might have been listening to your question. The breach that happened of an Australian government database was serious and, in terms of the information, minor. And if somebody was listening to your question they might have inferred, when you said 'Medicare database', that there were somehow personal details—information that should be kept private—that were the subject of that breach.

That is not the case. It in no way undermines the seriousness of the set of issues that sit underneath this. And making sure, as we've seen and expect to see— (Time expired)