Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, I am in order because, Mr Speaker, the question was about cuts to wages and penalty rates. What I am pointing out is that this Leader of the Opposition has form when it comes to ripping away the penalty rates of workers. I am not reflecting on you, Mr Speaker; I could not agree with you more. I am in order and I remain in order. With the Cirque du Soleil, he did it in 2001. With the Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust, he traded away the penalty rates of workers in 2001 and 2003. And there was Cut & Fill engineering in 2003 and 2005. On nine separate occasions as secretary of the AWU he signed away the penalty rates of workers. Worse than that: he did it in the case of Clean Event while—(Time expired)

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