Kristina Keneally (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I might raise a particular case and seek to see if the minister, in the context of that answer, can explain it. It's on the Sage Sagittarius and its master, Captain Salas. In 2012 he became a person of interest in the New South Wales coroner's investigation into three highly suspicious deaths aboard the Sage Sagittarius. Captain Salas admitted to the coroner that he was involved in gun trafficking and trading in alcohol. Despite that evidence in front of the New South Wales coroner, the Liberal government allowed Captain Salas back into Australian waters in December 2015 as master of the Kypros Sea. His ship travelled between a number of Australian ports, primarily Gladstone and Weipa, in early 2016. Can the minister explain in the context of the answers she's just given about the stringent controls and checking that's applied to foreign crew why Captain Salas was allowed back into Australian workers and Australian ports after the evidence he'd provided to the New South Wales coroner?