Judith Troeth (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am very proud to be a member of the Howard coalition government which introduced Work Choices one year ago today and I would like to wish this evolution—not a revolution—a very happy birthday. For every single individual case that the opposition can drag up, I would like to ask them: why is it that, in the time since Work Choices began, the number of Australian workplace agreements that have been agreed on is 298,499 compared with—I will give you the numbers for the other agreements—employee collective agreements, 2,791; union collective agreements, 2,422; employer greenfields agreements, 458; union greenfields agreements, 227; and multiple business agreements, four? If people are so unhappy with Australian workplace agreements why are they signing up to them in droves?