Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

What I have said in respect of the right of entry provisions is that there are a raft of changes that will come through Work Choices. Some have been settled to a greater degree of specificity. The government’s policy on the right of entry will ensure that employees can be represented by their union and employers have the right to get on with running their businesses. It is about ensuring that there is balance in the system, unlike the Liberals, who ensured that there would not be fairness in the industrial relations system. It is unlike the Liberals, who then said that with Work Choices they were going to stand for nothing more than ripping conditions from employees. (Time expired)