Anthony Albanese contrasts rigorous proposed checks on Australian workers with a ‘free-for-all around our coast and in our harbours’Government plans to loosen restrictions on foreign-crewed ships undermine national security because vessels registered in countries with low transparency could be used by terrorists and organised crime,Labor has warned.
On Wednesday Labor’s infrastructure spokesman, Anthony Albanese, or told federal MPs the government was proposing rigorous security checks for Australians at the same time as encouraging a “free-for-all around our coast and in our harbours” by allowing in foreign crews “without any genuine security checks”.
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Source: theguardian.com