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

If I may quickly correct the record, I understand that all the Queensland state Public Service redundancies will in fact be voluntary redundancies. Are we to believe that this legislation was not necessary for redundancies initiated and announced by state Labor in Queensland because they were fewer in number than those announced by Mr Newman, the LNP Premier of Queensland, so the government's only rationale for not having brought this vital piece of legislation in earlier is that it was the numbers in Queensland?