Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I wanted to go back to the issue of economic modelling. At that same inquiry hearing, I actually asked—and it should be on the record—the department whether they had done any modelling on Work Choices and, as I understood it, they had not done any modelling on Work Choices either. So here the opposition are trying to have a go about the modelling on a new IR bill when there was no modelling done on the previous system, Work Choices. I also point out that the evidence presented to the committee by DEEWR showed that collective bargaining was in fact better for productivity. That is what DEEWR were saying in the evidence they presented to the committee on 11 March. I was there and I have read the submission. That is the evidence that we were presented with.