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

The next issue relates to subsection (3). As I understand the minister’s answers, the fact sheet itself, although published in the Gazette, is not disallowable. Under section 154A(1), it is within the prerogative of the Workplace Authority Director to issue a fact sheet provided it contains the matters listed in subsection (2). What are potentially disallowable—although that obviously depends on the time frame between now and the election, which may be an issue—are ‘other matters relating to the content, form or manner of providing the workplace relations fact sheet’. That is in subsection (3). Essentially what the government is putting in place is the capacity to amend the fact sheet. Given how much this department and this portfolio spends on market research, will the minister rule out changes to the fact sheet as a result of market research or polling?