Q: The Port of Darwin – you said you’d have more information for us. So what is your plan? How will you do that? And where will you get the money from?

Albanese:

Well, we certainly are looking for a private buyer, as I have said, and there is interest.

…We won’t go through commercial negotiations and who the interested parties are but there are interested parties here in the Port of Darwin. If we can secure an arrangement and a transfer of ownership back to Australian control in an orderly way without Commonwealth intervention and compulsory acquisition, we will do that, but we are prepared to use compulsory acquisition powers.