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

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 6 November 2012:

(1) Did the department have any input into former Minister Evans' speech to the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association National Conference in Fremantle, Western Australia in October 2011; if so:

(a) to what extent; and

(b) did the department draft the speech.

(2) Does the Government stand by the speech as a statement of Government policy in the workplace relations space.

(3) Was the Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations consulted.