Senate debates

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Bills

Work Health and Safety Bill 2011, Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011; In Committee

5:05 pm

Photo of Eric AbetzEric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

First of all dealing with the broad benefit, was the broad benefit determined on the basis that every state would have identical legislation? We know that, courtesy of the Labor-Greens alliance that operates in the New South Wales upper house, like it does in this place, New South Wales does not have harmonised laws, which will incur extra costs, one would imagine, and therefore those figures that were mentioned clearly need to be reassessed. Then, in relation to the winners and losers, which ones are the small businesses that will be the losers that the 336-page impact statement told us about?

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