Mr TRUSS (Wide Bay—Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) (14:27): I thank the honourable member for his question—which I have answered, I think, three times already in question time this week, and the answer is not going to change. The evidence before the inquiry is of course on the public record and the Hansard record is printed. The officer concerned said on 7 September: I did not say to Mr Milby that he should sack his crew and that he should re-flag his vessel. He said, and it is on the public record, that he did not make that statement. There were meetings between Mr Milby and officers of the department. They discussed elements of the proposed legislation before the parliament and they discussed the various options and the ways in which a person in the industry might seek to respond. They gave no advice to him as to what action— Mr Albanese: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It was a very specific question, and it went to what written advice he or his office received from his department prior to the statement that he made to parliament last Monday. He has not raised one word on that. The SPEAKER: The Deputy Prime Minister is answering the question and he is relevant. He is less than a minute in. The Deputy Prime Minister has the call. Mr TRUSS: The officers concerned at a public inquiry, where Hansard was taking the record, referred to the conversations that they had with Mr Milby where they outlined various options available to people to take advantage of the measures in the proposed new legislation. A range of issues were discussed with Mr Milby. He is the manager of his own company. He makes his own decisions about how he wants to operate into the future. He has been competing with foreign flagged crews vessels on north-western Australian for many years and doing so satisfactorily. He will make his own decisions, as the manager of his company—presumably in the interests of his company and his employers—and respond to whatever legislation the parliament chooses to pass in relation to these issues. It is all on the public record.