John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It was former Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne and state MLCs in NSW and the Greens smashing Senator Rhiannon something terrible. But anyway, I've come in here on a more important issue only to find Senator Polley saying some crazy things over there, talking about penalty rates.

It was the Labor Party in government that formed Fair Work Australia. In fact, they even appointed the commissioners. They set up the whole system. They appointed the review of the penalty rates. So they set up the umpire, the umpire made a decision to shave some of those penalty rates on Sundays and public holidays and we get the blame for it. Unbelievable!

We get blamed for what they do! I mean, you're always right. Even when you're wrong, you're right! That's your system, Senator Cameron, and you go on and blame the government. Senator Polley was talking about high regional unemployment. It is quite amazing where I live.