He said:

... and almost casually irresponsibly. Let there be absolutely no mistake. If Labor won the next election and if it delivered on its promise to abolish Australian Workplace Agreements, it would seriously hurt every single current and future Australian ... AWAs are the fundamental basis of that flexibility and productivity. Abolish them and you rip away the foundation of the resources industry’s success.

The member for Tangney asked me about threats. Terry McCrann has nailed the nature, the extent and the dimension of the threat posed by a Beazley Labor government.