I think that the question is a much more fundamental one and it comes down to the part that we don't understand. I think nobody has been able to explain, and the bill itself doesn't explain, how this bill interacts with the Privacy Act. What is the interaction between these bills? Does it supersede the Privacy Act? Are these information sharing mechanisms subject to the Privacy Act? Will the Privacy Commissioner have the ability to investigate or to oversee this information sharing regime?
When we talk about anybody for any purpose, is that within the purposes defined in the Privacy Act or is that some other broader definition? This somehow takes the entire regime outside of the Privacy Act regime. It's not an easy question to answer because in my submission.... I think the drafting is not very clean and it doesn't give us a very good understanding of what exactly the drafters had in mind.