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

Senator Cash, you'd be aware that one of the differences between this debate on changes to the road transport industry and the debate we saw roughly 10 or 15 years ago, when the then Labor government made changes, was that this time the proposals we're legislating around the road transport industry have the widespread support of road transport employer groups. The intention is that the body—I think it's called the road transport advisory body or a name like that—that will be established under this legislation will provide advice to the Fair Work Commission on the types of matters that you're talking about, and it would then be a matter for the Fair Work Commission.