My question is to Senator Reynolds, the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Earlier this year, at a Senate Select Committee on Job Security hearing discussing foreign flagged vessels, Nationals Senator Canavan identified:

… we have just got to step in and create the circumstances to bring shipping back to Australian flagged vessels.

Why is the Morrison government promoting the use of foreign flagged coastal ships, putting at risk the sovereignty of Australia's supply chain, risking jobs and devastating the ability of the Inland Rail project to attract the required private investment to make it work?