Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Can the minister confirm that the new Howard government Workplace Relations Act will stand at 1,388 pages, plus 566 pages of explanatory memorandum and a further 593 pages of regulations? Minister, doesn’t that total over 2,500 pages of industrial legislation, regulations and explanations? Can the minister explain just how employers and employees are expected to understand their rights and responsibilities under these changes? Doesn’t this show that the government’s so-called simple, single system is really nothing more than a complex dog’s breakfast?