Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note the minister sought to justify the 800 per cent increase in strikes in the first six months of the Rudd Labor government as being the result of enterprise agreement negotiations. Does he agree with the Australian Bureau of Statistics data which show that 74 per cent of the strikes in the last six months had nothing to do whatsoever with agreement making? Will the minister now correct the record and tell us why there has been this 800 per cent increase? You cannot hide behind agreement making.