Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, my question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. I refer to the minister's previous answer in the Senate yesterday that:

… what occurred on the MV Portland, that is a matter for the company—nothing more and nothing less.

If what occurred on the MV Portland is a matter for the company, why were the minister's department and the minister's office given advanced notice of the plan to replace the Australian crew of the vessel with a foreign crew?