Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Minister for Transport and Regional Services) Share this | Hansard source

I begin by thanking the honourable members who have made a contribution to the debate on the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Maritime Security Guards and Other Measures) Bill 2005. Naturally the government will not be supporting the amendment but I thank the opposition for their indication of a willingness to support the substance of the bill. Honourable members have raised a number of issues and I acknowledge the work of the honourable member for Shortland’s predecessor in his Ships of shame report, which certainly highlighted areas of concern, although it needs to be acknowledged that that report did not deal so much with security issues.

See this speech in context