Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not going to express an opinion about the Fair Work Commission. We think that it's important that the commission be asked and required to not cut penalty rates, in exactly the same way as the act requires and directs the Fair Work Commission on a whole range of other matters. If that logic were correct, Senator, then we would be sitting here tonight removing a whole range of provisions from the act which require the Fair Work Commission to do certain things. We're not doing that, because the parliament does set parameters for the Fair Work Commission, and this is another one.