Ms O’CONNOR question to MINISTER for INFRASTRUCTURE, Mr VINCENT
In your contribution earlier today on the honourable member for Launceston’s notice of motion, you said that you talked about how seriously TasPorts takes the security of Tasmania. Can you, as minister, rule out a possible Port of Darwin fiasco where under the previous Turnbull government, the Northern Territory government basically handed over control of the Port of Darwin to the Chinese Communist Party. Can you rule out the sale of any TasPorts assets to foreign state-owned companies?
ANSWER
Mr President, I can confirm that I have had no discussions with the Chinese Communist Party in any shape or form, and, as I have said, going through a process with the appropriate people and committees looking at that, I am not aware of any point that I can discuss on that at this point in time.
Ms O’Connor – With respect, that is not the question minister. To rule out the sale of some of our critical port infrastructure to a foreign state-owned company is the question.
Mr VINCENT – As I said, I am the Minister for Infrastructure, that includes TasPorts and those discussions are not before me at the moment.
