Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

What do you know? It's 2.42 pm on a Wednesday—

A government senator: On a broadcast day!

on a broadcast day—and it's another false scare campaign about IR. Is this the third we've had so far? I've lost track of just how many we've had in question time today. I'm not sure whether Senator Brockman knows that he is misleading people with what he's saying, but I'm here to help him. There is a distinction between industry-wide bargaining and multi-employer bargaining. Industry-wide bargaining involves a whole industry; multi-employer bargaining involves multiple employers. They are different things. We are in favour of allowing employers and employees, where they choose, to pursue multi-employer bargaining. That is not the same as industry-wide bargaining. It's in the name. Again, it's just another false scare campaign from an opposition that is—

Opposition senators interjecting—