Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

The government has announced that, if we are successful in our abolition of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, the funds will be redirected to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. This is the appropriate body that can deliver real and tangible road safety outcomes in the trucking industry. And all of the truckies that I have been speaking to support that outcome. The heavy vehicle regulator administers the Heavy Vehicle National Law. It is responsible for regulating a range of safety-related measures including driver fatigue, speeding and loading requirements, and for ensuring that supply chains share equal responsibility for safety standards. What we on this side will not do is cripple owner-drivers within Australia, many of whose trucks at the moment are still. They are going nowhere because there is no more work for them. We will stand up for them and get them back on the road. (Time expired)