Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

If the Aviation Transport Security Amendment Regulations are not relevant to the Aviation Transport Security Amendment Act I do not know what is. That is why it was important to raise these things. People like me and the airline pilots association and I am sure every airline pilot travelling around and from Australia will have a very, very great interest in this motion before the Senate, which we do not seem to be dealing with. Why was it there? That is the question. Perhaps Senator Sherry will explain that when he speaks later.

As I said earlier, any legislation that assists with transport safety and security is something that will always get the support of the coalition. It will not in relation to that other regulation I mentioned because it was a silly regulation that in fact detracted from aviation safety, and that is why we disallowed it six months ago and why we will continue to do so. This bill does, we believe, actually enhance transport security, and that is why the coalition will be supporting it.