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

Thank you, Minister. So, Minister, while I am feeling sorry for you, and I do appreciate your honesty, I have to raise this for the world and for the 25 million Australians to know, because what we have been told, very, very clearly, is that, as to the two Asian crew members—who snuck off the Glorious Plumeria, they think, around 2 am on Sunday, and the ship sailed at 3 pm today—their passports were missing from the security box/safe or whatever it may be.

So I come back to this: how can we, as concerned Australians, who all want to unite to do everything to stop the insidious trade of drugs and weapons and all that into our nation, take this government seriously and, with our hand on our hearts, say: 'You've got it all worked out; nothing's going to get past you'? This is before I even start talking about where the freight moves, because it ain't the MSIC cardholders running around the port moving these drugs; these are going on the backs of trucks and in containers. So I come back to my question: Minister, how can we take this government seriously, as to you having a handle on this? And how is this legislation going to stop that sort of criminal behaviour?