House debates Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2005

Second Reading

Thursday, 2 March 2006 House of Representatives

Peter Slipper

Peter Slipper Fisher, Liberal Party

10:45 am

My question to the honourable member for Batman is: does he agree with many commentators who have said that unrealistic wages and conditions on Australian ships have priced the Australian coastal shipping trade out of viability? In other words, we do not have the coastal shipping trade we should because of unrealistic conditions won by unions in that area.

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