Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

For Senator McEwen, no it is not a conundrum. This is not a report from government—it is a report to government. It is, as I said also in the first supplementary answer, the case that all these matters of privatisation lie in the field of the state government. If the state government has made the announcement, then that is the way it is going to be. We do not run TasPorts; nor do we run TT-Line. That is very simple.