Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The fact is that the member for Dawson—the only member of the government at this point—has foreshadowed his concern about the effect of the Fair Work Commission decision and what it will mean for up to 700,000 workers in this country. Whilst we see these amendments as not being as good as the ones we earlier moved, in that there are some issues as to the way they will apply to certain provisions of the Fair Work Act—

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