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

The assurance I can provide is that under Work Choices no such transitional provisions, no such system, were put in place to ensure that when AWAs were offered to people that stripped their wages and conditions they could do anything other than take it or leave it. That is the system that you enjoined and I am not so sure you want to leave it, quite frankly. That is the system that you, as an opposition, had, and I am sure—