Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take the interjection from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He says he just wants more time; he wants more scrutiny. Does anyone believe that those opposite, the party of WorkChoices, will ever change? I was here for the WorkChoices debate. And I see the same fervour in their eyes now. This is the thing that unites them best: 'How can we gang up against workers and how can we bash the trade union movement?' That is what unites you, and that is what this motion is all about.

Let's remember the bill they so desperately don't want to debate expressly prohibits sexual harassment, puts gender equity and job security at the heart of the Fair Work Commission's decision-making, bans pay secrecy clauses.

You say you care, Senator Henderson, about pay equity, but you're defending pay secrecy clauses.