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

Thank you, Mr President. I apologise for that. It is a question: are the Liberals now backsliding into Work Choices or not? That is the real question that they have been unable to answer. While the Liberals persist with their failed policies of the past on industrial relations—and they have continued to persist—Labor will move forward. It will take forward its modernising agenda. It will ensure awards are modernised. We will implement a policy that ensures we will have fair industrial relations systems—(Time expired)