Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am advised that they should all have their passports checked. But, in relation to the security screening that you are referring to, again I reaffirm for the record that there is no legislative requirement for passengers and crew arriving in Australia whether by sea or air—in this case, you were talking about by sea—to be subject to security screening and, for example, go through a metal detector. All identified risks are scrutinised and treated appropriately to prevent the importation of prohibited goods. Again, as you picked up on in relation to the detector dogs, the ABF deploys specialist capabilities, including detector dogs, to areas of greatest risk and identified need as informed through the intelligence that they are gathering.