Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

As the member is no doubt aware, that's presently the subject of litigation. Both of the parties in that matter will no doubt make very strong arguments, and I think there are very strong arguments to be made on behalf of the workers that you're speaking to. The Fair Entitlements Guarantee is the established backstop to ensure that, if that litigation does not end the way that the workers from Ovato are arguing that it should, they have a guarantee of those entitlements. Obviously, the government will be keeping a very close eye on that litigation and will be ensuring that entitlements that are not paid through that process are paid through the Fair Entitlements Guarantee, as they usually are, as millions of dollars have been during the COVID pandemic and as will be the case here, depending on how that litigation ends. But we are not a party to that litigation.

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