Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia, Senator McKenzie. The Inspector-General of Biosecurity found that officials from the federal department of agriculture made crucial errors in relation to the Ruby Princess. Federal officials did not administer travellers with an illness checklist, did not review the ship's medical log and therefore did not contact New South Wales Health to raise concerns about sick passengers and crew. The inspector-general told ABC, 'If the department had done what it agreed to do, then the chances of a Ruby Princess incident happening would have been significantly reduced.' Does the Morrison-Joyce government accept this finding?