Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

New South Wales special commissioner Bret Walker SC told the ABC:

There must be a real chance, a sensible possibility, that if the Commonwealth had done a better job on the Ruby Princess, that the state officers may not have made the mistakes they did.

The Morrison-Joyce government did not permit federal officials to appear as witnesses before Mr Walker and the New South Wales commission of inquiry. Why?