Senate debates

Monday, 21 November 2022

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Jobs and Skills Summit; Order for the Production of Documents

4:56 pm

Photo of Matt O'SullivanMatt O'Sullivan (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

By leave—At the request of Senator Cash, I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on 25 November 2022:

(a) briefing notes, file notes and any written communication between the Treasurer and/or his office and any attendee of the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit in relation to the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit;

(b) briefing materials, file notes and any written communication produced by the Department of the Treasury that were provided to the Treasurer and/or his office in relation to the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit;

(c) any briefing materials, file notes and any written communication produced by the Department of the Treasury that were provided to the Treasurer and/or his office in relation to the agreed proposals or that came from the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit; and

(d) any correspondence, between the Treasurer and/or his office and any official from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union, the United Workers Union, the Australian Workers Union, and Unions NSW between 18 August and 19 September 2022.

And I also move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, by no later than midday on 25 November 2022:

(a) briefing notes, file notes and any written communication between the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (the Minister) and/or his office and any attendee of the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit in relation to the multi-employer bargaining proposals;

(b) briefing materials, file notes and any written communication produced by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (the Department) that were provided to the Minister and/or his office in relation to the consultation on the Government's bargaining proposal;

(c) briefing materials, file notes and any written communication received by the Department that were in relation to the consultation on the Government's bargaining proposal;

(d) any briefing materials, file notes and any written communication produced by the Department that were provided to the Minister and/or his office in relation to the agreed proposals of that came from the Government's Jobs and Skills Summit; and

(e) any correspondence, between the Minister and/or his office and any official from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, the Construction, Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union, the United Workers Union, the Australian Workers Union, and Unions NSW between 18 August and 19 September 2022.

Photo of Andrew McLachlanAndrew McLachlan (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | | Hansard source

The question is that the motion be agreed.