House debates Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

Wednesday, 21 June 2006 House of Representatives

Kevin Andrews

Kevin Andrews Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service

2:37 pm

rather than having them imposed upon them by remote industrial tribunals and third parties. Indeed the best workplace arrangements are those which are developed and agreed to by employers and employees alike. Australian workplace agreements, which the Leader of the Opposition and those opposite want to abolish, are an essential part of that workplace relations system and they deliver significant benefits. On average, Australian workplace agreements deliver benefits that are 13 per cent more than those on collective agreements, and very significantly they deliver 100 per cent more than those on—

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