Parliamentary library was pressured on My Health Record advice, emails reveal

The health department complained that the library’s advice contradicted Greg Hunt’s assurances on police access

Pressure from the health department prompted the parliamentary library to remove then amend advice issued in June that contradicted the health minister Greg Hunt’s assurances about police access to My Health Records, new correspondence reveals.

Emails produced under freedom of information reveal that the chief operating officer of the department, Matt Yannopoulos, complained that the advice by the library’s director of foreign affairs, defence and security, Nigel Brew, was “misleading and/or inaccurate”.

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