Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1)   My Department assesses compliance with all airport lease agreements annually. There have been no issues of non-compliance identified to date.

(2)   Contracts between airport-lessee companies and their sub-lessees are negotiated on a commercial basis between the parties. Lessees are able to set terms and conditions that reflect a reasonable commercial approach, subject to relevant provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 which contains specific provisions on misuse of market power. Tenants have access to existing commercial protections and remedies through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission if they consider the terms and conditions are unreasonable.

(3)   Please see response to Question (2).

(4)   The legal affairs of airport-lessee companies are matters for those companies.