Catryna Bilyk (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition harped on about the industrial relations changes for at least two rounds of estimates and they have started up again this week. The Rudd government was elected on the back of killing off Work Choices, which the Australian people no longer wanted. The Rudd government is trying to implement a modern national economy, and we can no longer afford to have thousands and thousands of complex and outmoded industrial instruments that stop at state borders. That is why, just as the standard rail gauge was, award modernisation is an important national reform.

But of course those hypocrites on the other side, who spent years not worrying—