Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government believes that everyone who goes to work should return home safely to their family each day. The Commonwealth is working with the states and territories to explore how the preventive focus of existing workplace health and safety laws can be strengthened to prevent injury and, importantly, deaths in the workplace.

State and Commonwealth ministers will soon meet to consider all recommendations from the 2018 review of model laws, including the recommendation for a specific offence relating to industrial manslaughter, to ensure consistency and harmonisation. That is the appropriate forum to determine any changes to these laws, and not this motion today in the Senate.

Question agreed to.