Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Milby has been competing with overseas vessels on the cruise routes of north-west Western Australia for many years and doing so successfully, and I have got no doubt that, in the event of the legislation the government has put before the parliament coming into effect, he will be able to do so in the future. And it will be his choice as to how he wishes to operate his business. He will do it in the interests of his employees and his company, and I am sure he will continue to provide a good service to Australians in that area.

The reality is that Labor is trying to make a big noise about these trivial issues—

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to cover up their own failure in relation to shipping reform. Their own shipping reform was a disaster, as the Prime Minister referred to, halving the number of vessels—

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