{"id":7830,"date":"2005-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2005\/10\/01\/australia-prepares-worker-history-screen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:36:58","slug":"australia-prepares-worker-history-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/australia-prepares-worker-history-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia prepares worker history screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusionary offences include counterfeiting, identification fraud, drug possession or trafficking and unlawful gun possession &#8211; these are to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. However, offences such as assault and other violence related or robbery convictions are not considered to compromise the integrity of the supply chain. It is a practical measure to exclude these offences; if they were not, one government official noted, &#8220;we would probably lose 20% of the workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Crumlin, the national secretary of Australia&#8217;s top maritime union, says that his people are content to submit to the screening procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no criminality on the waterfront whatsoever, &#8221; he asserts. &#8220;There is no corruption, that&#8217;s an urban myth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 130,000 of Australias stevedores, seafarers and long-haul truck drivers are to be screened for criminal history from this October. This is prior to being issued a new identification card that will be mandatory for access to the docks. Government officials have predicted that the vetting will cause some stresses and strains,  pointing out that a criminal history is much more common among seaport workers than airport staff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7832,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}