House debates

Thursday, 10 December 2020

Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

2:53 pm

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

When you go to the relevant provisions, the protections that would absolutely and in all circumstances prevent happening what the Leader of the Opposition wrongfully says would happen are these: you can never have the approval of agreement unless, 'The approval of the agreement would not be contrary to the public interest.' That is the protective line inserted by Labor, and here they are replicated in the reforms before the parliament. These are the exact same words: the approval of the agreement would not be contrary to the public interest. This is desperate, absolutely desperate. Tell untruths, try and scare people—the signs of absolute desperation.

If Yoda were here, he would remind us that fear of leadership tensions leads to the dark side. Leadership fear leads to anger. Anger leads to wildly untrue assertions in question time. That is the path to the dark side of politics, and that's the path that this Leader of the Opposition is on.

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