Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety) Share this | Hansard source

Ben, if you're listening, mate, could you get a copy, and I'll give it to the government. I'll come back to this one then. Minister, it is also a well-known fact, which we established during the inquiry through many witnesses, that the drugs that are flooding our nation and coming through on shipping are not coming in from transactions on the waterfront; they're going out in containers and being delivered to wherever it may be. Please tell me how this bill goes to address that concern of mine. How will making it harder for port employees to get MSICs stop illicit drugs being shipped through containers that are not screened through our ports? You haven't got the screening facility. You have a hit and run every now and again; you have a couple of dogs walking around having a bit of a sniff. Some of our waterside workers, our wharfies, have waited six months for their MSIC.