Chris Evans: “I think some change in this area is long overdue.”

They deserve kindness, respect and the guarantee of returning home safe from work.

These experiences range from being followed home at night to being knocked unconscious by a shopping basket.

If they're working out of Australian ports they ought to be meeting those Australian conditions, and they certainly should be meeting those international conditions that are expected.

Fundamentally the situation ought to be that ships that are working through Australian ports ought to be applying conditions that are on a par with Australian conditions.