Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

And here we are, reaching into private entities. Forget the unionised workforce, who have done the right thing here. This is a private company that has a stable agreement and has done the right thing. It is not a building company; it is a power company. By virtue of its involvement in the NBN, which is a government program, it has been dragged into this ridiculous, pernicious code, which at its heart is actually a representation, just as Work Choices was, of big government getting involved in the private market. You are getting involved and sticking your noses in where they do not belong. That is what this is. You just shake your head. We kind of expect it from the government, given their leadership worries and the constantly changing ministerial line-up. How can anybody really predict what they will do? They want both sides of every argument, a sure sign of a government in trouble. I see the member for Corio in the chamber. Is that right—the member for Corio?

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