Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

Captain Stubing would be so unimpressed by that last speech. Of course, he was the skipper on TheLove Boat. 'The love boat soon will be …'—yes, you know the theme song. Of course, it sailed around the Pacific and other wonderful places. But they didn't worry too much about what the member for Ryan was going to say. They didn't worry too much about that. I suggest that there's a little rift between Labor and the Greens. Normally they would have been on the Love Boat. They would have been catching up and romancing on TheLove Boat. Even though they've done a dodgy deal to get the safeguard mechanisms through, on this account TheLove Boat has very much abruptly stopped somewhere in the deep ocean.

This is good legislation. I'll tell you why it's good legislation—because I was the one who introduced it in the first place. The Special Recreational Vessels Amendment Bill 2023 extends that. It ensures that the sunset is not somewhere on the deep blue Pacific but is ongoing—this time by a further two years to 30 June 2025.

Despite the member for Ryan's protestations, this isn't just about billionaires. It's not. It's actually about—

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