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

As I say, I wasn't having a go, Senator Cash, in suggesting you might know that there's extensive case law. I was recognising your experience in this area. What I can also direct you to in the revised explanatory memorandum is in, I think, the next paragraph from the one you were reading from. So, paragraph 1119, about halfway down, it makes the point that 'protected industrial action taken by the employers/employees during bargaining for the agreement would not amount to coercion. The employer, having requested its employees to vote to approve the agreement, could be taken into consideration as could any unprotected industrial action taken by the employees.'