Senate debates

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Bills

Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017; In Committee

7:16 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I've got a question here for Senator Cameron. It's pleasing to see that Senator Cameron now seems to know what the word 'reasonable' means, after the last debate. Senator Cameron says that this only goes some of the way. Well, the Labor Party went none of the way. Now he says wage theft is rife around the country. Why did Senator Cameron and the Labor Party not do anything about this issue when they were in office for six years? Perhaps his focus was on protecting union bosses feathering their own nests?

And why would the Labor Party support the stealing of workers' take-home pay in the form of higher energy prices due to the Labor-Greens climate and energy policies? That has really hurt workers and exported jobs, making more workers vulnerable. This is where all workers are most vulnerable. How can we, let alone vulnerable workers, trust this man and this party and their coalition with the socialist Greens, which is destroying this country?

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