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

Mr President, I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.

Leave granted.

The Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee was delivered seven volumes of supporting information to underpin the Fair Work Australia report findings into Mr Thomson and the HSU. The committee did decide to release the report. I was told that I was not able to talk about the private deliberations of the committee. Suffice to say that we were not required to go to the floor of the Senate to release the report. Fair Work Australia has made a treasure-trove of documents available to the Senate, which the coalition believes should be publicly available. I have personally seen the documents and Senator Fierravanti-Wells has personally read all seven volumes of the documents. The coalition believes that the public interest is such that all those documents should be made available.