Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is the Fair Work Act. We see an amazing bill coming through now involving a lot of parts—27 parts. Some are simply necessary tidying up; we support them. Some are worthy improvements; we support them. Some are big issues that are not thought through. Some are big issues that are thought through but appear to be hiding things. Some are designed deliberately, it appears, to confuse and to obfuscate. We need more time to scrutinise this. The government has said that this is about increasing pay. Rubbish! They have left out my Fair Work Amendment (Equal Pay for Equal Work) Bill 2022, which is fundamental to getting more pay for workers. We cannot add complexity to this already complex dinosaur—the Fair Work Act—without proper scrutiny. That's the only way to do this. I support the move to suspend standing orders, and we'll be supporting the motion.