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

I place on record that Labor will not be supporting these amendments. Whilst we appreciate the sentiments of Senator Siewert and the Greens amendments, our view is, firstly, an in-principle difficulty with retrospectivity, but more importantly we believe that the only way to deal with the inherent unfairness in Work Choices is to elect a Labor government and to have the act repealed and a new act in place consistent with Labor’s policy.