Mr McCLELLAND (2:40 PM) —My question is again to the Attorney-General, representing the Minister for Justice and Customs. I refer again to the recent theft of Australian Customs Service computers from its security centre at Sydney airport. Those centres are involved in operations with the AFP and ASIO against terrorists and international drug cartels in which Customs officers watch the movements of suspects and suspicious cargo in and out of the country. Can the Attorney-General inform the parliament as to whether the theft of these computers puts at risk any Australian classified information or information processes, including systems operating processes or encryption technology relating to the transfer or encryption of classified information?

Mr WILLIAMS (Attorney-General) —I thank the member for Barton again for the question. As I said in response to the earlier question, Customs has advice that the servers did not contain personal, business related or national security information, and the reports that came out linking them with aviation security I am also advised were wrong.