Thursday, 22 June 2023

Southern Metropolitan Region

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:36): (268) My constituency question is for the attention of the Minister for Police and relates to the blockades at that continue to occur down at the Port of Melbourne. I have got a media release from Blockade Australia, who on their website call themselves a political movement, but they are actually quite destructive and they are causing havoc.

David Davis: Terrorists.

Georgie CROZIER: They are, Mr Davis. They have blockaded the Port of Melbourne, as I said, for the fourth day in a row, and they are continuing to undertake these actions across Australia at major ports. Obviously the Port of Melbourne in Mr Davis’s and my electorate is incredibly important for the Victorian economy. On the website of this Blockade Australia outfit, it says:

Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to this destruction.

They want:

… disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine …

meaning our economy. I ask the police minister: what are they going to do about preventing these destructive activists from destroying our economy even further?