Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting how they do not want to hear the good news. Mr Sasse, a spokesman for John Holland, said:

It’s quite intentionally not trying to undermine existing market conditions and you’d be a bloody fool to try and do it because no one would come and work for you.

That is reflecting, of course, on the contraction in the growth of the workforce because of the ageing of the population. Here is an example of a big business operator in Australia—one of the major construction companies in Australia—taking on more workers under a new provision in the work choices legislation and paying them as unskilled labourers some $2,700 a week. The advantage of Work Choices is not just for major employees.

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