Key analysis of the impact of sweeping changes to privacy law won’t be released by the government, which has invoked a blanket protection to keep it hidden as the reform process stretches to more than half a decade.
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus this week defied a Senate order to release the cost benefit analysis of his landmark privacy reforms because it remains subject to the deliberations of Cabinet.
A report was prepared by ACIL Allen in June at a cost of more than $500,000 and is reportedly based on detailed questionnaires and roundtables with industry groups.
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