Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Infrastructure) Share this | Hansard source

He didn't stand in front of this flag, because he is busily conspiring with ship owners to have this flag removed from Australian vessels and replaced with a foreign flag, so that he can replace the crews on those Australian vessels with foreign crews. Over the last 20 years, international sea freight to and from Australia has more than doubled.

Mr Zimmerman interjecting —

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