House debates Private Members' Business

Workplace Relations

Monday, 7 December 2020 House of Representatives

Sharon Claydon

Sharon Claydon Newcastle, Australian Labor Party

6:59 pm

If passed, that appalling piece of legislation would have in fact created incentives for companies to sack their Australian crews and hire foreign workers for as little as $2 an hour. Its very purpose was to shrink the Australian shipping sector and to encourage ships to register their vessels offshore. One cruise ship operator in Newcastle—

Mr Falinski interjecting—

Madam Chair.

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