Parliamentary Document

Identifies populated Australian question-time briefs (QTB), Senate Estimates briefs, parliamentary question responses and parliamentary correspondence briefs: the brief type together with populated brief header fields (Minister, portfolio, issue, division, contact officer, cleared by, date, question or brief number).

Type

regex

Engine

boost_regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

Medium: brief-type names appear in public guidance, training and news, so enforcement requires populated brief header fields; 85 adds response content.

Jurisdictions

global

Regulations

Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)

Frameworks

PSPF, QGISCF, ISO 27001

Data categories

government

Scope

narrow

Risk rating

8

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?is)\b(?:QTB|question\s+time\s+brief|Senate\s+Estimates\s+brief|estimates\s+committee\s+brief|parliamentary\s+question\s+response|parliamentary\s+correspondence\s+brief)\b

Should match

• QUESTION TIME BRIEF - NOT FOR RELEASE Minister: Minister for Housing Portfolio: Housing and Public Works Issue: Social housing register growth Contact officer: Jordan Staffson, 3035 6621 Cleared by: Deputy Director-General, 12/08/2026 Likely question: Why has the register grown by 9 per cent? Suggested response: The Government has funded 1,200 additional dwellings this year. — 85 - populated QTB header fields plus likely question and suggested response
• Senate Estimates brief SB26-000412 Division: Border Operations Date: 03/06/2026 The program remains within its approved budget for 2025-26. — 75 - populated brief header fields without response content
• Question time brief QTB-204: likely question, proposed answer, talking points, media lines, key facts, not for release, and clearance required — 65 discovery - brief type and content words but no populated header fields

Should not match

• The parliamentary cafe serves lunch daily — Unrelated parliamentary wording
• A tour of Parliament House — Tourism context
• The public guide explains the purpose of question time briefs. — Public process guidance without a live brief
• Training example: question time brief QTB-204 with likely question, proposed answer, and not for release — Explicit training content must not enforce
• Question time brief template Minister: ________ Issue: ________ Contact officer: [name, phone] Cleared by: ________ — Blank brief template - placeholder fields are rejected
• The minister's leaked question time brief suggested the register had grown, the Opposition told parliament on Tuesday. — News item - no populated brief header fields

Known false positives

• Public parliamentary guidance, published transcripts, and media commentary discuss questions, answers, talking points, and estimates without containing a pre-release response brief. Mitigation: Keep parliamentary brief topics discovery-only and require likely-question, response, talking-point, media-line, key-fact, supplementary, answer, portfolio, or hearing content.
• Training briefs can contain realistic question numbers, draft answers, media lines, embargoes, and clearance instructions. Mitigation: Reject explicit template, demo, tutorial, sample-data, and training-example framing from enforcing tiers.

References

• Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)
• Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF)