Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Women wanted to be able to use the internet and the phone at home to undertake some part-time paid work and yet receive appropriate remuneration at the same time. The reason our laws did not bring about a workplace revolution was that they were simply responding to the modern workplace.

At the next election it is the Labor Party promising a workplace revolution. They are the ones going to the electorate to say that they want to go back to the days when the union officials were beating down the doors of every workplace. Only this morning I went to a business in Queanbeyan where a worker, Greg, said explicitly that the fear of the workers is that the unions will come back into the workplace. He said that they were able to negotiate an agreement that was fair to all without the unions being directly involved.

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