Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The nature of the commercial arrangements for the specific ports Senator Hanson identified are not immediately known to me. I don't have every one of those at my fingertips in terms of who is the owner or lessee in that context, so I can't comment directly on those. Therefore I am speaking in the broad, and I should reinforce that. The nature of the commercial arrangements is also not known to me. Obviously it is case-by-case. But I was trying to respond to the specific questions in relation to the Port of Darwin. My understanding is that the critical infrastructure legislation plus the FIRB, which has clear rules on state owned enterprise investments, are the relevant framework under which these are dealt with. We do not want to duplicate those powers, and these other frameworks cover private company and commercial concerns.