It gets to the funding issue again. I completely agree with you, because this follows a pattern of behaviour. The Coast Guard is given greater responsibility, but because it is a special operating agency, what often happens is that the funds that are then provided to allocate for the new tasks that it is given go by the wayside.
I'm not saying that this is happening in this particular context as we see it given a greater security focus, but I am suggesting that, if past performances are to be held, your concerns that in fact they will be given greater responsibilities, they will be told that they have to do this, and then the issue will be if you have the money to get the necessary pieces of kit that you need to engage upon that type of information. They are already integrated with some of the security sharing of information. This, of course, is going to take them one step further in terms of that whole-of-government approach.
The other part, too, of course, that we haven't talked about is the issue of law enforcement that follows from that. That is something that is also going to have to be addressed if we see this continuation of the direction that the government seems to be taking with the Coast Guard.
