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

In his opening comments, Senator Abetz articulated his thought that he was not going to get much support for this amendment. He is right: he is not. We oppose these amendments. We believe that last resort arbitration is essential for a fair bargaining system. In fact, as people would pick up from both my speech in the second reading debate and some of the amendments we have put, we believe that this bill has gone too far in taking out arbitration. We think that it should be going in the opposite direction to the one which the coalition wants to take. We will be strenuously opposing these two amendments.