Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2021-03-30 Daily Xml

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NationBuilder

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:27): My question is to the minister responsible for the public sector regarding public sector practices. Will the minister rule out the possibility that data gathered through surveys or emails with government departments has been shared with the Liberal Party?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:27): I have already put on the public record the clear and unequivocal denials from the Premier and related denials by NationBuilder. If the Leader of the Opposition wants to get into the area of governments of which he was a member and the use of material in relation to email addresses of public servants during the 2010 and 2014 election campaigns by the then Premier, I am very happy to place on the record again statements I have made in this house previously about the practices of the former Labor government, of which he was a senior member, in relation to the use of databases of public servants that were accessed by the former Labor government.

As to some of the current practices of the Australian Labor Party in relation to the collection of petitions, I am happy to get the detail of that as well and, at an opportune time, place that on the public record in relation to some of the devices and schemes that the Australian Labor Party is currently using in relation to collecting petitions, names and data harvesting.