Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I move an amendment to that motion:

That the words "the next sitting" be deleted and, inserted in their place, the words "1 July 2022"

This amendment to this bill—the bill that the Senate rejected last week, but the stubborn members opposite don't want to acknowledge that they had a bill rejected by the Senate—what they want to present is effectively the 'ensuring double standards' bill. That's what's in front of us—a bill to ensure double standards, a bill that is part of this government's two-stage tactic: stage 1, attack the organisations that defend pay and conditions; stage 2, attack the pay and conditions themselves. We know what's coming from questions that were answered in the Senate last week. They're going to go after unfair dismissal laws. They're going to go after the better-off overall test. We know that the attack on pay and conditions is coming. We know that the attack on superannuation is on the way—

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