Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Given the front page of the Australian and in particular the concerns raised by Mike Henry in relation to BHP and given the concerns also raised by Rio Tinto—one's the west coast and one's the east coast, obviously—and given the evidence in relation to why there is a carve out for civil construction that was provided by Senator Watt last night, and it was because, without verballing, him, of the high use of agreements at an enterprise level that had been negotiated, I think Mike Henry might argue that within the mining and resources industry on the east coast and in particular for BHP there is a very high use of enterprise bargaining agreements. So, why did the government ignore the concerns of these industries?