Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

These amendments are extremely difficult for me. Some of the stories that we heard through the committee process cause concern. The question here though is one of balancing out power and how far it goes, and I am torn between both. I think in the end I am not going to support these amendments because I am worried about the power going too far with the unions. Maybe there is another way to solve this; I do not know. But I do know that tonight I feel uncomfortable with some of the powers here. I will probably have further discussions on this, but at this stage I do not feel comfortable supporting the amendments and I also feel uncomfortable knowing some of the stories that we heard through the committee process.