Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Your advice today is that nothing can be done about the Port of Darwin and probably, subject to advice, nothing can be done about the other port arrangements that Senator Hanson has raised. But, in the future, if a state government engaged in an arrangement with a foreign entity—sorry: I've forgotten what the term is under the bill—which contemplated leasing arrangements, for example, then the leases would come within the remit of the minister for the purposes of the bill and could be vetoed at that point?