House debates Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

Thursday, 25 May 2006 House of Representatives

John Howard

John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

2:49 pm

When we introduced those reforms in 1998 the opposition railed against them. They defended the outrageous practices of the Maritime Union of Australia. They predicted that the Australian waterfront would not become more efficient. Eight years later we have hourly crane rates on the Australian waterfront that are the envy of the rest of the world. Just as they said the world would come to an end—

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