Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Abetz. I refer to the Abbott government's plan to deregulate Australian coastal shipping. Can the minister confirm that the government's own cost-benefit analysis shows its plan would see four of the six ships currently carrying non-bulk cargo across Bass Strait sack most of their Australian workforce and replace them with majority foreign crews paid at Third World wages?