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

have got it so wrong. They predicted when these laws were started that there were going to be mass sackings, that children would not see their parents on Christmas Day and that parents would not be able to afford to buy their children shoes to go to school in. They predicted Armageddon, the end of the world, when these laws were to start a year ago. The reason it did not happen is that our laws were part of the evolution of the modern workplace. Our laws were about responding to the demands of the workers, who wanted flexibility in the workplace, who wanted to be able to engage in job sharing and shift sharing and who wanted to be able to work from home.

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