Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (12:53): The purpose of this noncontroversial package of four bills—with two sets of bills for amendment and the four to be cognate—is to rewrite in plain language the original Navigation Act 1912 and repeal one of the oldest laws, the Lighthouses Act 1911—with some provisions of the Navigation Act included in laws and provisions from the 18th century. The legislation reflects current industry conditions and practices in the shipping industry, enables the industry to keep pace with international standards and removes out-dated provisions. The legislation also enhances protection of the marine environment and safety for Australian and foreign vessels. Most importantly, the legislation provides confidence and certainty for the industry. When we talk about confidence and certainty for the industry, it is very pertinent today, especially when we consider what is happening currently in South Australia with the Olympic Dam—and confidence and certainty in the industry, which this legislation provides, is obviously something that they do not have. It is no good crying over the brick going through the window. After that has happened, everyone just walks away and says, 'Well, it's done and there's nothing we can do about it.' That seems to be the case with what has happened with the Olympic Dam. What we can say is that if you keep putting up further imposts, further caveats and reasons to not do something, reasons to mitigate something and reasons to shut things down, in the end you are successful—you do shut things down; things do come to a grinding halt. That is quite obviously what this legislation is trying to avoid, but what has not been avoided are the carbon tax, the mining tax and all the other imposts that are part of the reason—it is not an either/or argument, but a part of the reason—that we have the situation that has brought about one of the greatest financial hits to South Australia ever. So far it is one of the biggest investment projects South Australia has ever had and it has been knocked on the head. I think it is worth noting, in line with this, that we should always be trying to make things smoother and make it so things actually work—take away impediments and realise the world we are living in. If we can do that we can keep our head financially above water. If we create a whole range of mechanisms for things not to happen, we will end up succeeding—they will not happen.