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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the experience of statutory individual contracts in Western Australia under the Liberal Court-Kierath government during which around 25 per cent of all agreements registered with the Western Australian Commissioner of Workplace Agreements had an ordinary rate of pay that was below the award rate by 1998. During the same period penalty rates and overtime rates were abolished in 44 per cent of agreements and the introduction of WA workplace agreements in the state public sector—

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