Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sport) Share this | Hansard source

From Senator Back's second question, his motivation has become clear. This is just another Liberal attempt to go back to their glory days of Work Choices, the glory days when workers' rights were stripped away. You hate this because you know you lost an election on it, but this is the case: the Liberal Party will always stand with the big bosses over the workers. You stripped away the penalty rates of workers, you stripped away the protections of workers, you put in place AWA contracts to drive down wages and, the truth is, you want to go back to the old days because, in the end, that is all you know. Senator Sinodinos, come on down and join the front bench because you were part of it. You were one of the architects of Work Choices. You were one of the people who came up with this policy which was repudiated by the Australian people. We are very proud— (Time expired)