Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister seen the analysis by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations overnight in relation to any economic benefit from the government’s extreme industrial relations laws that ‘this is going to take three to five or six years to have any economic effect’? Is the Prime Minister also aware that a Treasury analysis has not been able to estimate any productivity benefit and in fact suggests a negative impact on productivity in the short term? Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that these extreme changes are not about the Australian economy now or in six years time; they are simply about slashing workers’ pay and conditions today?

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