Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Now that he has bothered to turn up, my question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue. I refer the minister to his speech to the Pine Rivers industrial relations business breakfast on 12 August 2005, when he said about the government’s proposed industrial relations legislation:

Significantly, these changes will not be at the expense of workers’ capacity to negotiate with their employer—in fact, it will provide greater choice.

Minister, now that the legislation has come into force, does this remain your view?

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