Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Road Safety) Share this | Hansard source

This makes it worse, then. What we're well aware of—the whole world knows, and, if you haven't known, you're going to know now—is that two Asian crew members snuck off the cargo ship docked at the Geelong port. This was more than 60 hours ago. I'll go back to when this email came through, so it's probably about 62 hours. They've snuck off a ship called the Glorious Plumeria 60 hours ago and disappeared. I would then ask: Minister, while you have listened to my case—previous ministers have listened to what the senators on this side have been putting—how can anyone now stand up without cracking up or falling into a hole because they've been caught out fibbing? Minister, tell us that there's an MSIC port and two Asian crew members have snuck off. Were they escorted off by MSIC people? I don't know. Enlighten us, please.