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

Thanks, Senator Cash. As a former industrial relations minister and, I think, a former industrial relations practitioner as a lawyer, you would be well aware that the Fair Work Act, as it stands currently, and which you presided over, does not specify every detail that the Fair Work Commission would need to take into account. That, of course, would be a matter for the Fair Work Commission to determine, just as many matters under the existing legislation which you were the minister for left matters to the discretion of the Fair Work Commission.